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
- 4/21Wednesday
Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
Hannah Arendt Center - 4/28Wednesday
On Hannah Arendt: Virtual Reading Group - 'What is Authority?'
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event - 4/28Wednesday
Courage to Be Series: The Courage to Be More than a Label (or Three)
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event - 5/01Saturday
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Read This Week's Feature
To Think What We Are Doing
Roger BerkowitzHannah Arendt’s The Human Condition is not about human nature. Arendt says little if anything about what it means to be human in the sense of our natural humanity. Her inquiry is premised on the fact that we humans are conditioned beings, that we are born into an already existing world. That world is made through human artifice; it also conditions us humans insofar as we must live and die in a humanly built world.
04-15-2021