Roger Berkowitz, A WORLD WE SHARE
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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.
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. His books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition. He also hosts the podcast Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.
Michelle Murray is Associate Professor of Politics at Bard College and author of The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations: Status, Revisionism and Rising Powers (Oxford University Press). Her current research includes a book project on the importance of inter-state friendship in sustaining international order and a series of papers on the transformative potential of hope in international politics.
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