Amor Mundi

Teaching Hannah Arendt Underground

By Samantha Hill
For the past two days I’ve been teaching Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism for the tuition free summer school program at The University of the Underground and The Hannah Arendt Center, at The School for Poetic Computation in NYC. ..

The Four Prejudices Underlying Our Crises of Democracy

This essay by Roger Berkowitz was originally published in HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center.

Why Privacy Matters: Panel Eleven

A discussion from our 2015 Annual Conference: Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?

Time for Arendt

“In the last analysis, the human world is always the product of man’s amor mundi, a human artifice whose potential immortality is always subject to the mortality of those who build it and the natality of those who come to live in it.”

Agnes Heller: 12 May, 1929 – 19 July, 2019

Roger Berkowitz writes in memoriam of the holocaust survivor and Arendt scholar.

A Letter from Roger Berkowitz

When you join the Hannah Arendt Center, you become part of a global community of thinkers, philosophers, and activists dedicated to understanding and loving the world as it is. Please read this special letter from our Academic Director, Roger Berkowitz to learn why your membership is so important, now more than ever.

What We're Reading

This week, Roger Berkowitz is reading Chiara Ricciardone and Robert Kehoe

Geuss, Habermas, and the Rose of Unreason

Martin Jay brings his perspective to the ongoing debate over Raymond Geuss's piece on Jurgen Habermas.

Everything is Fragile: Reading Arendt in the Anthropocene

John D. Macready, professor of philosophy at Collin College, offers this week's Quote of the Week.