Interviews
Hannah Arendt and the meaning of friendship: an interview with Roger Berkowitz
in Re/Visions (2025)
“One of the most delicate and profound threads in Hannah Arendt’s thought concerns friendship. Arendt regarded friendship as the foundation of both ethical and political life: a relationship that allows individuals to appear before one another as free and distinct beings. In contrast to love, which fuses two people into one, friendship preserves independence while cultivating respect and trust over time. We asked Roger Berkowitz, an American scholar fascinated by Hannah Arendt, to shed light on her understanding of friendship.”
Roger Berkowitz Tells It Like It Is
in Clocked Out Magazine (2024)
“One rainy afternoon in early March, we made the hajj to the Upper West Side to meet Roger Berkowitz, Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights at Bard College and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities. Roger was also Clocked Out EIC’s hugely inspirational academic advisor, always encouraging us to think critically, and about how Hannah Arendt actually wrote about this. We three sat at The Flame Diner to discuss the current state of academia, AI, ideological dogma, the professoriate, and Eternal Life.”
in Colta (2018)
“Почему мы готовы слушать только тех, с кем согласны? Есть ли о чем спорить со Стрелковым? Что такое гиперморализация? Состояние публичной сферы обсуждают эксперты по Ханне Арендт.”
in The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012)
in The Intellectual Origins of the Financial Crisis (2012)
Remembering Hannah: AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK BLUM
in Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010)
On the final day of the conference Thinking in Dark Times, celebrating Hannah Arendt’s one-hundredth birthday, a group of attendees gathered by Hannah Arendt’s gravesite to hear Arendt’s friend Jack Blum offer some remembrances of her. Blum’s stories, some humorous, others poignant, offered a glimpse of Arendt’s life in a way that her published writings do not. Blum, a student of Heinrich Blücher, Arendt’s husband, also offered insights into Arendt and Blücher’s loving and intellectually rich relationship.