Roger Berkowitz

Academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities

Roger Berkowitz is the founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, as well as a professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, in the United States. He is the host of the podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz. He also writes the weekly Amor Mundi newsletter for the Hannah Arendt Center. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (2005). His new book A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World will appear in 2026 from Yale University Press. He wrote the Introduction for On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (Library of America, 2024), and he has edited Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism (2025) and Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology and the Human Condition (2022). He was co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017). Professor Berkowitz is the winner of the 2024 Compassion Prize given by Con-solatio and the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen.