Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging with Samantha Fazekas | Bonus Episode
Roger Berkowitz speaks with Samantha Fazekas about her book Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging (De Gruyter Brill, 2025). Fazekas argues that judging became central for Arendt as she confront...
14 Aug 1h 4min
Home to Roost | Responsibility and Judgment
Host Roger Berkowitz closes our discussion of Hannah Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgment with her final public speech, “Home to Roost” (1975), presented as Arendt’s last assessment of the crisis of t...
7 Aug 1h 2min
The Deputy & Auschwitz on Trial | Responsibility and Judgment
Focusing on two essays from Responsibility and Judgment—Arendt’s 1964 review of Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy and her 1966 introduction to Bernd Naumann’s Auschwitz on Trial—podcast host Roger Berko...
31 Jul 1h 9min
Reflections on Little Rock | Responsibility and Judgment
There's a shift in Hannah Arendt's Responsibility and Judgment from essays on moral and political responsibility to shorter essays of judgment about particular events, beginning with her controversial...
24 Jul 1h 2min
Collective Responsibility & Thinking and Moral Consideration | Responsibility and Judgment
In this episode of the podcast, host Roger Berkowitz discusses two essays from our summer read, Responsibility and Judgment: “Thinking and Moral Considerations” and “Collective Responsibility.” He exp...
17 Jul 1h 7min
A July Reflection on America and Arendt | Bonus Episode
In this bonus episode of the podcast, recorded on July 5 from Marlborough, Massachusetts, host Roger Berkowitz reflects on Fourth of July patriotism, baseball, and a Lapham’s Quarterly podcast series,...
10 Jul 27min
Some Questions of Moral Philosophy, Sections 3 + 4 | Responsibility and Judgment
In this episode of the podcast, host Roger Berkowitz discusses the final sections of Hannah Arendt’s essay “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” focusing on Arendt’s post-Eichmann turn to thinking, mo...
3 Jul 1h 12min
Some Questions of Moral Philosophy, Sections 1 + 2 | Responsibility and Judgment
In this episode of the podcast, host Roger Berkowitz introduces Arendt’s essay “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” compiled by Jerome Kohn from 1965–66 courses after Eichmann in Jerusalem. He explai...
26 Jun 1h 13min
