HAC Membership Material Benefits

2022 Tote Bag

13″ wide x 15″ high x 3″ gusset with 25″ Spun Poly Handles -- Natural Cotton Canvas Tote Bag featuring a quote by Hannah Arendt, "The need of reason is not inspired for the quest of truth but by the quest of meaning." - Hannah Arendt

Journal 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. 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).

The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition
Edited by Roger Berkowitz

The Perils of Invention is based on three Hannah Arendt Center Conferences: “Human Being in an Inhuman Age,” “Lying and Politics,” and “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age without Facts.” Contributions written for these conferences are placed alongside many new essays that reflect on the ideas they raised. The result is a freshly invigorated investigation into these critical and timely themes. The authors have diverse backgrounds—Arendt scholars, public intellectuals, novelists, journalists, and business people—and include Uday Mehta, Marrianne Constable, Nicholson Baker, George Kateb, Marianne Constable, Linda M.G. Zerilli, Peg Birmingham, Davide Panagia, and many others.

Limited edition print by artist David Schorr titled, Hannah Arendt Center: The Centenary Print

At the $1,000 membership level, members will receive a limited edition print of Hannah Arendt by artist David Schorr titled, Hannah Arendt Center: The Centenary Print. The print edition details: 

David Schorr was a very close friend of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt's student and biographer. In 2012, the center commissioned Schorr to create a print edition based on the cover of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World. Schorr created 50 limited edition prints on handmade paper, which are signed and numbered by the artist. David Schorr (b. 1947, Chicago, IL – d. 2018, New York, NY) was an American artist whose works span painting, drawing, intaglio printmaking, lithography, and engraving.  An illustrator and calligrapher, Schorr often incorporated text and literary references into his work. (www.davidschorr.com)