To Think What We Are Doing

Roger Berkowitz

These are dark times. The hardest thing to do in dark times, writes Hannah Arendt, is to love the world. She invokes the Latin phrase Amor Mundi, For the Love of the World, to express the unspeakably difficult effort to reconcile with the world as it is while also insisting that the world must change. The Hannah Arendt Center aims, in the spirit of Hannah Arendt’s bold and provocative writing, to offer an institutional space where we can, in her words, “think what we are doing.” In response to the murder of George Floyd and the revolutionary civil disobedience movement that has sprung up to demand dignity and justice for black lives, the Arendt Center has put together a webpage highlighting talks and events that shed light on questions of antiracism, civil disobedience, and police violence. We pledge to redouble our efforts to bring light to the dark times.