112th: Roger Berkowitz on Hannah Arendt with Roosevelt Montás

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Join us Monday, October 19th at 7pm for a discussion with Roger Berkowitz on his new book, A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World. In conversation with Roosevelt Montás. In order to facilitate this in-person author event, we will be partially closing the second floor starting at 6:45pm. Please review our Safety guidelines and register for the event using the link above. Bios: Roger Berkowitz is founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. In 2019 he was awarded the prestigious Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Berkowitz’s books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, and he also hosts the podcast “Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.” He lives in New York. Roosevelt Montás was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York as a teenager, where he attended public schools in Queens, New York. His book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton University Press, 2021) reflects on his experiences as a student and then a teacher at Columbia University, explaining how a liberal education transformed his life and why Great Books have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds. He is also author of Becoming America: Four Documents That Shaped a Nation and Why Their Ideas Still Matter (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2026) and coeditor of The Princeton History of American Political Thought (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2026). He speaks and writes on the history, place, and future of liberal education and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Point Magazine, The Financial Times, Aeon Magazine, The New York Daily News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Dispatch, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets

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