The Life, Philosophy and Politics, of Hannah Arendt with Dr. Roger Berkowitz (Bard College).

The Following Video is a continuation of my series on the important Jewish thinkers in German Philosophy entitled "The Life, Philosophy, and Politics of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), With Dr. Roger Berkowitz who is the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for politics and Humanities at Bard College.

Dr. Berkowitz helps navigate the viewer through Hannah Arendt's very complex life and breaks down both her political and philosophical ideas.

Dr. Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College, where he writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition (2021).

The Hannah Arendt Center presents: The Virtual Reading Group Most Fridays at 1 PM EST Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. For The Virtual Reading Group Join Founder and Academic Director: Roger Berkowitz and Director of Academic Programs: Jana Mader on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. For link and sign up: https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi-and-t...

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The Hannah Arendt Center For Politics and Humanities at Bard College is a Center that provides an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our nation and our world.

For more information on Dr. Roger Berkowitz please see his personal website: https://www.vernunft.org/

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. Professor Berkowitz authored The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (Harvard, 2005; Fordham, 2010; Chinese Law Press, 2011).

Dr. Berkowitz is editor of On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (forthcoming, 2024); The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition ( 2020) and 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).

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The American Interest, Bookforum, The Forward, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. Berkowitz edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2024 Compassion Award given by Con-Solatio and the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen, Germany.

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The Gift of Science
Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition

Roger Berkowitz.

"The front pages of our newspapers and the lead stories on the evening news bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. The rich and famous get away with murder; Fortune 500 corporations operate sweatshops with impunity; blue-chip energy companies that spoil the environment and sicken communities face mere fines that don't dent profits. In The Gift of Science, a bold, revisionist account of 300 years of jurisprudence, Roger Berkowitz looks beyond these headlines to explore the historical and philosophical roots of our current legal and ethical crisis.

Moving from the scientific revolution to the nineteenth-century rise of legal codes, Berkowitz tells the story of how lawyers and philosophers invented legal science to preserve law's claim to moral authority. The "gift" of science, however, proved bittersweet. Instead of strengthening the bond between law and justice, the subordination of law to science transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends. Drawing on major figures from the traditions of law, philosophy, and history, The Gift of Science is not only a mesmerizing and original intellectual history of law; it shows how modern law remains imprisoned by a failed scientific metaphysics."