A World We Share: Roger Berkowitz on Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship

Podcast: Keen On America · Andrew Keen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

“A human being is worth more than his opinions”, Hannah Arendt wrote to her Zionist friend Gershom Scholem in 1946, after he read her critical essay on Zionism and accused her of betraying the Jewish people. So how to value a human being? What, according to Arendt, are we worth? According to the Arendt scholar Roger Berkowitz, our value lies in the power of friendship. That’s what he calls, in his new book, A World We Share. It’s what makes us human. Berkowitz, who runs the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, reminds us that Arendt wasn’t a...