
The Philosophers and the Will, Sections 4, 5, and 6 | The Life of the Mind, Book II, Willing, Chapter 1
In this week's chapter reading of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, host Roger Berkowitz, focuses the session on Part II, Willing, Chapter 1, The Philosophers and the Will. Discussing the difficul...
18 Heinä 202555min

Montez Press Radio: The Politics of Friendship with Uday Mehta | Bonus Episode
This week we're sharing a recording from our friends at Montez Press Radio, an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and...
11 Heinä 202553min

Staying Decent in an Indecent Society with Ian Buruma | Bonus Episode
In this bonus episode, host Roger Berkowitz speaks with Ian Buruma, a writer, journalist, educator, and award-winning thinker, as well as the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism ...
4 Heinä 202557min

Willing, Sections 1, 2, and 3 | The Life of the Mind, Introduction and Syllabus
We begin the second book in Hannah Arendt's unfinished manuscript, The Life of the Mind. This week's episode provides an overview of Part II on Willing, focusing on the concept of the will and its imp...
27 Kesä 202554min

Can Deliberation Cure Democracy? with James Fishkin | Bonus Episode
In this conversation between Roger Berkowitz and James Fishkin, a Stanford University expert on deliberative polling and deliberative democracy, they discuss the effectiveness for addressing the ills ...
20 Kesä 202552min

Where Are We When We Think? Sections 20-21 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 4
In this episode, Roger Berkowitz leads a discussion on the concluding sections of the book on Thinking, part of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind. Berkowitz elaborates on Arendt's insights into the...
13 Kesä 202548min

What Makes Us Think? Sections 18-19 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
This episode centers on Hannah Arendt's exploration of Socrates as a model for thinking, outlined in Sections 18 and 19 of Chapter 3 in The Life of the Mind. Arendt argues that Socratic thinking, char...
6 Kesä 20251h

What Makes Us Think? Sections 16-17 | The Life of the Mind, Chapter 3
In this episode, Roger Berkowitz continues with a close reading of Sections 16-17 of Hannah Arendt's unfinished book, The Life of the Mind. Berkowitz explores the key themes of the first part of the b...
30 Touko 202553min



















