THINK ABOUT IT ON VIDEO: Hannah Arendt , with Richard J. Bernstein (The New School) | by Uli Baer

“Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination.” This is what Hannah Arendt wrote in 1968, when the country was involved in a war it would lose, the civil rights movement was gaining strength to win rights for all Americans, but politics were headed to a then unheard-of low point of corruption and the ultimate resignation of the President. Today, we live in divided times, and some clear-headed analysis of the current dilemmas is hard to come by. Enter: Hannah Arendt. But nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today. Her foresight about the fragility of democratic life is relevant for the worst possible reasons: populism, white supremacy, mass deception, the rise of fascism around the world, the coordinated assault on serious journalism, academia and any kind of responsible thought. Really, there's no reason to celebrate why the great analyst of totalitarianism, fascism, and anti-democratic forces and a thinker "in dark times" is so timely today.

The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein met Arendt first in 1972, when he was a young professor and three years before her death. He explained to me why Arendt’s work should be read today with renewed urgency, because it provides illumination into the forces that shape our present. Instead of a dry academic exposé, I got a moving anecdote about his first meeting with Arendt ("the most intellectually exciting and erotic meeting") and a lucid yet impassioned explanation of Arendt's analysis of politics and of the human condition.

Bernstein is an American Philosopher who teaches at The New School in New York City, and has written extensively on American pragmatism, political philosophy, the Frankfurt School thinkers, the question of evil, on Jewish identity, and other topics. He is a public intellectual in the best sense of that word by taking thoughtful and principled positions on a range of issues that concern us all. His Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? is a succinct introduction to key themes in Arendt's work.

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