The Poetry of Hannah Arendt: What Remains

Roger Berkowitz is the founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He writes the weekly Amor Mundi newsletter and hosts numerous public events, including the annual Arendt Forum. He also leads a weekly online reading group devoted to Hannah Arendt and hosts the podcast Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The American Interest, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Seminar, Salmagundi, Philosophie Magazine, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, National Review, and many other publications.

His new book is A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press). His previous books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press). For the Library of America, he wrote the introductions to On Totalitarianism and On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt.

Berkowitz's edited volumes include Joy: Loving the World in Dark Times, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism, and Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition. He co-edited Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis, and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch. He is co-editor of De Gruyter’s “Thinking With Arendt” series and a former editor of “Just Ideas,” a book series published by Fordham University Press.

Berkowitz received the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the 2024 Compassion Prize from Con-solatio.