Soft, brushed, durable canvas with copper metal rivet accents and a full gusset, and features our 2025 annual conference logo designed by Aaron Taylor-Waldman in collaboration with HAC Student Fellows. Developed with recycled materials for sustainably, and sourced ethically in India, our 2025 tote bag is made by BagWorks New York and their Sedex audited partner, and printed domestically.
The Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement in the United States gives voice to a rising nationalism and tribalism we see around the world, from Modi’s India, to Putin’s Russia, Orban’s Hungary, and Netanyahu’s Israel. Against such a tribalism is the dream of a world citizenship, the cosmopolitan ideal that sees all human beings as part of one large political world. Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism is dedicated to exploring the humanity of both tribal affiliation and cosmopolitan dreams.
Published by DeGruyter Brill, the Hannah Arendt Yearbook, Volume 13 centers on the compelling theme of Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism, featuring edited transcripts from the annual Hannah Arendt Center conference that took place in October 2024 at Bard College. For those who crave deeper engagement with the ideas explored at our annual conference, the new edition provides unparalleled access to scholarly discourse, with insightful essays by prominent thinkers such as Sebastian Junger, Fintan O’Toole, Seyla Benhabib, Leon Botstein, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Uday Mehta, and more.
Together for the first time, classic essays on how and when to disobey the government from two of the greatest thinkers in our literature. As we grapple with how to respond to emerging threats against democracy, Library of America brings together for the first time two seminal essays about the duties of citizenship and the imperatives of conscience. In “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849), Henry David Thoreau recounts the story of a night he spent in jail for refusing to pay poll taxes, which he believed supported the Mexican American War and the expansion of slavery. His larger aim was to articulate a view of individual conscience as a force in American politics. No writer has made a more persuasive case for obedience to a “higher law.” In “Civil Disobedience” (1970), Hannah Arendt offers a stern rebuttal to Thoreau. For Arendt, Thoreau stands in willful opposition to the public and collective spirit that defines civil disobedience. Only through positive collective action and the promises we make to each other in a civil society can meaningful change occur. This deluxe paperback features an introduction by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, who reflects on the tradition of civil disobedience and the future of American politics.
A 15x15 inch Speaking Truth to Power limited edition print featuring words by Hannah Arendt from the Origins of Totalitarianism by the artist, Julia Csekö.
Born in Colorado to Brazilian parents in self-exile during Brazil’s military dictatorship, Julia Csekö was raised in Rio de Janeiro. An interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural advocate, Csekö has received numerous prestigious awards and residencies, including the ALAANA Creative County Grant, the SMFA Traveling Fellowship, the Collective Futures Grant, the Be The Change Award, and multiple Local Cultural Council grants. In 2025, Csekö will return to MASS MoCA as an Assets for Artists Alumni AiR. Csekö recently completed a three-year Artist Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts and an eight-month-long Salem Public Artist Residence, and has been invited to several notable programs, including Sculpture Space and MASSCreative’s Create the Vote Fellowship.
Csekö’s work includes public art commissions and is held in prominent collections such as the Tufts University Permanent Collection, Emerson College, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio (MAM Rio), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and Centro Cultural São Paulo, as well as private collections worldwide.
A limited edition print of Hannah Arendt by artist David Schorr titled, Hannah Arendt Center: The Centenary Print. The print edition details:
"Reading, appreciating, comprehending, & critiquing the works of Arendt is a life-long project for me. Participating in the VRG has provided me with a renewed sense of the vitality, originality, and continuing relevance of Arendt’s thought. Indeed, when I first learned about “dark times,” I thought that we were experiencing another “dark times” in the 1970s. But it seems positively idyllic compared to the present. And through the VRG, we’ve not only been able to explore Arendt’s insights with others interested in her project, but to think about how her insights apply today. All-in-all, a rewarding and enlightening experience." - Stephen Greenleaf, member since 2020
"Roger Berkowitz deserves a wider readership of his comments on current affairs. The world would be a better place if his analysis were applied to daily political thinking. An organization that keeps Hannah Arendt's thinking and writing alive in the world is to be commended and supported. Arendt's analysis of Totalitarianism should always be studied and referenced in political life." - Stella de Vulder, Sydney, Australia
"I have been enriched by every program that I have attended. Thinking with Arendt gives a framework for every discussion, publication and presentation, a place to start, a place to think with and a place to return to." - Wendy Chappel, Mississauga, Ont, Canada