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
- 6/12Saturday
Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
Hannah Arendt Center - 6/16Wednesday
A Celebration of the Relaunch of the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event - 10/14Thursday
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
Loneliness and Politics
Roger BerkowitzJohn Douglas Macready considers the importance of Arendt’s analysis of loneliness as the fertile ground for totalitarian and ideological politics. The widespread anxiety over the global eruption of right-wing populism, which was exacerbated by the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, and the succeeding four years of his presidency, produced a renewed interest in the political theory of Hannah Arendt,
06-10-2021