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.
///////////////
Follow me:
TWITTER - / ulibaer
(THINK ABOUT IT) - / ulibaerpodcast
INSTAGRAM - / ulinyc
(THINK ABOUT IT) - / ulibaerpodc. .
////////////////
Listen to the Podcast on:
APPLE PODCASTS - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
SPOTIFY - open.spotify.com/show/3QDjymX...
////////////////
Thanks for watching! :)
Uli Baer.
Пікірлер: 28
Gracias mil
Muchas gracias desde Chile democrático
A fine interview conducted by an extraordinarily erudite and inciteful interviewer…… a rarity indeed. Thank you sir. Prescient for me as I’m re-reading Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism and intend to study Richard Bernstein’s study thereafter. An aside: Interview took place in what I assume is Bernstein’s apartment? What a wonderfully ecclectic collection ….. the Nakashima pieces in partcicular caught my attention. With much appreciation, Miss Jenny (music teacher, Manhattan).
Gracias, gracias ,,, un gusto verlos compartir
Thank you so much. From Chile
Amazing, "Stop and think" really summarizes the essence of her thoughts. Never thought that it was possible to concentrate her thoughts like that!
@UlrichBaer1
2 жыл бұрын
thank you for listening!
BRAVO!!!
Thank you for this amazing session, from Kenya with love.
@UlrichBaer1
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Where are we now..? 🤕
Very sad that instead of Hannah being famous we have Jordan Peterson. 😵💫
@sicklygreyfoot
2 жыл бұрын
Ain't THAT the truth!
@johnalbert5786
Жыл бұрын
Lol 😂 …elitist much?
@joshuataff4911
Жыл бұрын
@@johnalbert5786 It's not elitism. Peterson is not a true intellectual. He's an Pseudo-Fascist ideologue who misrepresents any academic subject that doesnt conform to ideology he's peddling to our youth.
@xelaphilia
Жыл бұрын
... who is an amazingly intelligent person.
@eternaldoorman5228
Жыл бұрын
🤣
I like all that was Hannah Arendt, her spirit, her character, and her thinking. What irks me in general and also here: the name is butchered. Her name was Arendt, pronounced Ah-rund, with emphasis on the first syllable, the German word for eagle. How come they all pronounce the name as if it was a French name?
@puramarrulla
3 жыл бұрын
The answer's in your heart.
@vincentwalker2524
3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps b/c Hannah herself pronounced it as Ahrent - you know, the "Frenchy" way. Oh, and the German word for eagle is adler, not Arendt.
@johannavanzanten9668
3 жыл бұрын
@@vincentwalker2524 You are correct, it is the Dutch word for eagle, sorry.
@UlrichBaer1
2 жыл бұрын
@@johannavanzanten9668 Thank you for listening. Given that Arendt moved from German-speaking to French-speaking to English/American-speaking contexts, there are surely several ways of pronouncing her name.
Really? why? He says much the same about hierarchies’ proclivity to corrupt and decline into tyranny. Have you actually read any of his books, watched any of hundreds of hours of lectures, debates and interview-conversations? Or are you ‘relying’ on second, third … hand caricatures?
Uli Baer I wish you and Bernstein would have discussed her association with the anti Semitic Nazi Heidegger whom she called “The secret King of thought.” She can excuse Eichmann by saying that he was no “thinker” but how can she dismiss her secret lover “Heidegger’s Jew hatred.” This is what you need to ponder not the tired question about “the banality of evil” or whether she was right about this or that point. Given what we know now about her secret relationship with Heidegger and about Heidegger’s secret Journals were over many years he wrote about his hatred of Jews. I always thought that when Heidegger attacked Plato and Aristotle he was also attacking Judaism with its invention of Monotheism. I write this as a non religious person.
@a1k131
Жыл бұрын
Good observation to ponder.. I can't connect the last paragraph to the main theme though. Is attacking monotheism and also Judaism considered anti-semitism ?
Bernstein, Epstein, Weinstein. They all are going to save the world...
Did Richard slip Hannah the happenis that night 👍