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The HA Journal

The HA Journal embodies the desire to remain true to Arendt’s irreverent, provocative, and vibrant spirit. As such, we publish essays that provoke, surprise, and enlighten as they speak to and about the common world.

HA Journal Volume XI

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    Volume XI
    Volume XI of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center presents different perspectives on the place of rage in politics today. 
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    Rage and Reason
    Prominent thinkers such as Myisha Cherry, William Davies, and Pankaj Mishra confront the triumph of rage-fueled provocation over reasoned dialogue.
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    Featuring New Essays 
    Contributions include "Remiembering Ursula Ludz" and a review of Susannah Young Ah-Gottlieb's "Where Are We Now? Auden and the Muse of History"
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    Inspired by the '22 Conference
    The journal is a beautiful accompanyment to the conference, which you can rewatch here.

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Use our Journal Order Form to choose our current volume or choose from past volumes. Copies are $35/ea. International orders are $45.

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HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center Vol. XI
 

Volume XI of the Hannah Arendt Journal explores the power of rage and social media in today’s world. At a moment when materially comfortable societies are teetering and the visceral attraction of tribalism is rising all around us, we must ask how our liberal democracies can survive and thrive amidst intensifying partisanship and the decline of public reason. The flip-flopping, nonscientific nature of our collective responses to travel bans, vaccines, masks, and lockdowns make clear that public discourse is driven by emotions rather than reason. The Journal includes contributions by Myisha Cherry, William Davies, and Pankaj Mishra who confront the apparent triumph of rage-fueled provocation over reasoned dialogue in contemporary American politics.

Volume XI also includes thoughtful talks from the past year by Catherine Liu and the artist known as V and an essay based on archival research in the Arendt Library by our visiting fellow Anna Aguiro on Arendt’s concept of natality. This issue marks the passing of eminent Arendt scholar and editor Ursula Ludz (1936-2022) with a tribute by her friends, collaborator, and readers Jerome Kohn, Ingeborg Nordmann, Wolfgang Heuer, Antonia Grunenberg, Marie Luise Knott, Patchen Markell, Thomas Wild, Jana Schmidt, Alexander R. Bazelow, and Roger Berkowitz.

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Past Volumes

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    Volume I
    Includes 12 essays based on talks originally given at three Hannah Arendt Center Conferences. “Human Being in an Inhuman Age” was held in 2010; “Lying and Politics” and “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age without Facts” took place in 2011 and are combined here in “Truthtelling.
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    Volume II
    Volume II includes four essays based on talks given at the 2012 Arendt Center Conference, “Does the President Matter? A Conference on the American Age of Political Disrepair.”

     
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    Volume III
    Volume 3 of HA is a jam-packed double issue. It includes talks and essays given at the Hannah Arendt Center in 2013 and 2014, including at two of our annual conferences, “Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis” and “The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?”

    Volume III

    The essays manifest the Hannah Arendt Center’s unique approach to thinking about politics today, one inspired by Hannah Arendt’s bold and provocative embrace of the humanist tradition to illuminate pressing political issues.
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    Volume IV
    Volume 4 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College draws principally on talks given at the 2015 Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "Does Privacy Matter?”
     

    Volume IV

    Volume 4 features contributions from Edward Snowden, Robert Litt, David Brin, Ben Wizner and Dr. Anita Allen, among others. As with the three previous issues, readers of the new issue of HA will experience the Hannah Arendt Center’s unique approach to thinking about politics today, inspired by Hannah Arendt’s bold and provocative embrace of the humanist tradition to illuminate pressing political issues.
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    Volume V
    Volume 5 offers a collection of essays designed to think provocatively on how we speak about the most difficult questions that divide us and why it is important to do so.

    Volume V

    These essays were originally given as talks at the Arendt Center’s October 2016 conference “Real Talk: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex, and Religion" by noted scholars and humanists including Göran Adamson, Roger Berkowitz, William Deresiewicz, Mary Gaitskill, Janet Halley, Erica Hunt, Greg Lukianoff, Uday Mehta, Deroy Murdock, and Judith Shulevitz. Taken together these essays begin a project of speaking about issues that are too often passed over in awkward silence. Additionally, this volume includes three essays on Donald J. Trump's election as President of the United States. In the aftermath of the election, we asked leading thinkers to think about Trump's victory in light of Arendt's writings. These essays by Roger Berkowitz, Leon Botstein, and Marianne Constable are attempts to do just that. Finally, Volume 5 of HA republishes “Useless Freedom,” an essay by Mary McCarthy adapted from a speech first given at Bard College in 1987.  Collectively, these essays begin to find a language through which a new and more plural conversation on race, sex, and religion might spring forth­­.
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    Volume VI
    Volume VI of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center includes essays from our 2017 conference: “Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times.”

     

    Volume VI

    This year’s conference marked the 10th anniversary of the Hannah Arendt Center. The essays by Micah White, Zephyr Teachout, Yascha Mounk, Linda Zerilli, Walter Russell Mead, Roger Berkowitz, Marc Jongen, and Ian Buruma approach the global rebellion against liberal democracy from plural political and experiential viewpoints. Additionally, this volume includes an open letter which was penned against the Arendt Center, addressing the invitation of Marc Jongen, along with a number of public responses that followed. Reflecting on the concept of natality in Hannah Arendt’s writing, Volume 6 also features essays by Drucilla Cornell, Lori Marso, and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek on the question: Is the Private Political? 
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    Volume VII
    Volume 7 of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College features talks given at the 2018 Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "Citizenship and Civil Disobedience.”
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    Volume VIII
    Volume VIII of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College includes essays by Eric Ward, John McWhorter, Etienne Balibar, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Marc Weitzmann, and others from the Hannah Arendt Center’s 2019 annual conference, “Racism and Antisemitism.”
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    Volume IX
    Volume IX of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College offers space for a discussion that was impossible to have in person in 2020/21. Prompted by the Caribbean Marxist scholar C. L. R. James’ response to Hannah Arendt in a lecture series from 1960, the volume gathers a number of responses-to-the-response in a virtual debate that traverses historical and ideological divides.

    Volume IX

    Beginning with Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts’ take on the relationship between the two thinkers and their views on the Hungarian Revolution, critics Cameron Cook, Angela Maione, Nikita Nelin, William Paris and Allison Stanger reflect on revolution, postcolonial politics, violence and Arendt’s critique of Marxism. The Journal features a trenchant exchange on the possibility of social change in a pandemic between Roger Berkowitz, postdoctoral fellow Chiara Ricciardone and activist Micah White and book reviews by Dawn Herrera and H. L. Onstad. Also included are two original essays on the “thinking activity” in Arendt and Kant by Yasemin Sari and on the ethics of phenomenology by Clara Carrillo Fernández.
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    Volume X
    Volume X of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College focuses on how we can reinvigorate democracy. The journal includes seven essays that were originally given as talks at the Arendt Center's 2021 Conference, Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom. Essays by David Van Reybrouck, Schmuel Lederman, Michael MacKenzie, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Roger Berkowitz look specifically at citizen assemblies and deliberative models of democratic governance as new tools with which to bring new energy to modern democracy.

    Volume X

    Tracy Strong and James Barry Jr. situate modern democratic strategies within a larger history of democrat thinking in the United States. This volume of HA also includes an essay by Matthew Longo on Hannah Arendt as a storyteller and reviews of Samantha Hill's biography Hannah Arendt ( by Shaan Sachdev) and Marie Luise Knott's meditation on Arendt's thinking about race 370 Riverside Drive, 730 Riverside  Drive: Hannah Arendt und Ralph Ellison (by Roger Berkowitz).

    Read a digital copy of the Journal here.
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