What if democracy’s crisis has less to do with facts than with friendship? IHS Senior Program Manager Michael Brodrick talks with Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, about his new book, A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World. They discuss how Arendt’s combative, demanding friendships shaped her political thought, why she saw respect rather than agreement as the bond of civic life, what she meant by insisting there is no truth in politics, and where the limits of friendship lie.
Further Reading
A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World — Roger Berkowitz, Yale University Press
Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz — Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College
Amor Mundi — Roger Berkowitz
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