"Arendt on Revolution" with Richard Bernstein

Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, the sessions had to be moved online. The video and audio quality is not always consistent. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Despite Arendt's aversion to the so called "social question," her seminal text, On Revolution, offers us political insights that are crucial to rethinking socialism today. Richard Bernstein's masterful presentation begins with an overview of Arendt's theoretical framework, distilling her unique conception of action, freedom, politics, power, and revolution. He then offers a critical reconstruction of Arendt's arguments in On Revolution which culminates in her affirmation of councils, a likely political form for socialism today.

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at NSSR:
https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/richard-j-bernstein/

Andrew Arato is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory:
https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/andrew-arato/
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Course information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/sociologyandsocialism/session-21

Technical Team:
Can Nuri Akin
Udeepta Chakravarty
Arya Vaghyenegar

This course is held at the New School for Social Research:
https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/

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