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In the spirit of Hannah Arendt, who thought loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection, but the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
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Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 12 of Origins of Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism in Power. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group (VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are currently reading Arendt's classic analysis of the 20th century, The Origins of Totalitarianism. In Origins, Arendt tracks the rise of Fascism and Communism and explores what differentiates these regimes from past authoritarian systems.
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Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017). Berkowitz edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Germany.
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There’s different understandings of individualism. The neoliberal understanding of market fundamentalist, selfish individualism I’d say is responsible for some of the most destructive human endeavours since the 80s. So it’s understandable if people reject that, I do. It’s the private and public individual and them being in their respective place. Private individualism finds it’s way into public life under neoliberalism.
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