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Against a tradition that elevates truth above all else, Roger Berkowitz draws on the life and thought of Hannah Arendt to argue that a politics governed by an objective ideal of truth becomes cruel, coercive, and ultimately anti-political. Friendship—grounded in dialogue, respect, and plurality—offers a more human political bond. Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was known to possess a “genius for friendship.” A Jew in Nazi Germany, an exile in Paris and New York, and an uncompromising critic of postwar orthodoxies, she survived and flourished through friendships that were intellectually intense, complicated, and morally demanding. Her tribe of outsiders included thinkers as disparate as Karl Jaspers, Hans Jonas, Mary McCarthy, Gershom Scholem, Heinrich Blücher, and Martin Heidegger. This book explores how these friendships shaped Arendt’s political thinking. Berkowitz weaves Arendt’s life, thought, and friendships into a powerful meditation on our present moment. In an age of mass loneliness, ideological certainty, and civic breakdown, A World We Share connects democracy not to consensus or moral purity but to our capacity to maintain relationships with others we do not agree with—and cannot fully understand. Berkowitz argues that our political crisis is actually founded in a crisis of friendship. Only by nurturing private and also public friendships can we reimagine a truly democratic politics. Available directly from Yale University Press or through major retailers such as Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9600503e6b2f7f177d0da3/2b8cde95-b0e4-438a-9d82-1c2c20f469c4/51ALGpsYENL._SY522_.jpg Home - HA: The Yearbook, Volume 13 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 De Gruyter 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. With the Hannah Arendt Center’s acquisition of the exemplary humanities journal, Lapham’s Quarterly, we are incorporating Lapham’s model of supplementing contemporary essays on a theme with excerpts from classic reflections. As a result, you will find here texts relating to both tribalism and cosmopolitanism from Anthony Appiah, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Emile Durkheim, Epictetus, Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Khaldûn, Martha Nussbaum, and more. The goal is to offer a rich and broad introduction to the inquiry into the human tension between our need to belong to tribes and our aspirations to cosmopolitan humanism. In addition, the mixing of present scholarship with classic texts provides a sourcebook for those who would like to explore these questions with more depth. Available for pre-order through De Gruyter Brill and retailers such as Amazon and Target. HA: The Yearbook, Volume 13 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 De Gruyter 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. With the Hannah Arendt Center’s acquisition of the exemplary humanities journal, Lapham’s Quarterly, we are incorporating Lapham’s model of supplementing contemporary essays on a theme with excerpts from classic reflections. As a result, you will find here texts relating to both tribalism and cosmopolitanism from Anthony Appiah, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Amy Chua, Emile Durkheim, Epictetus, Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Khaldûn, Martha Nussbaum, and more. The goal is to offer a rich and broad introduction to the inquiry into the human tension between our need to belong to tribes and our aspirations to cosmopolitan humanism. 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