A place for bold and risky thinking
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt, the leading thinker of politics and active citizenship in the modern era.
Upcoming Events
- 10/25Sunday
Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
Hannah Arendt Center - 10/26Monday
Juliana Huxtable '10 and Kimberly N. Foster
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event - 10/29Thursday
Rev. Jacqui Lewis and Kenyon Adams
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event - 4/15Thursday
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
10:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Olin Hall
Read This Week's Feature
The Uses and Abuses of Hannah Arendt
Roger BerkowitzHannah Arendt has become the thinker of the present moment, cited in hundreds of essays and think pieces seeking to explain our current predicament. There are some good reasons for her newfound relevance. Arendt’s fearless thinking insisted on confronting reality. She understood the uniqueness of totalitarianism, but also its origins in imperialism, bureaucracy, racism, loneliness, and the decline of the nation state.
10-22-2020