VRG: The Human Condition 2021 Ep.#1 (Prologue)
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- February 5, 2021
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WHO IS HANNAH ARENDT?
Hannah Arendt was a humanist thinker who thought boldly and provocatively about our shared political and ethical world. Inspired by philosophy, she warned against the political dangers of philosophy to abstract and obfuscate the plurality and reality of our shared world. She fiercely defended the importance of the public sphere, but she was also intensely private and defended the importance of privacy and solitude as prerequisites for a life in public. Embraced by liberals and conservatives, she also enraged and engaged interlocutors from all political persuasions.
WHAT IS THE VIRTUAL READING GROUP?
The Virtual Reading Group is an online, scholarly, collaborative exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. During the coronavirus pandemic, the VRG, as we call it, has grown with new members from around the world. We gather to talk and to listen while closely reading texts on issues like totalitarianism, democracy, privacy, extremism, and the importance of public spaces for debate and resolution.
The VRG is hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt, the leading thinker of politics and active citizenship in the modern era.
HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?
Members of the Hannah Arendt Center and Bard College students are invited to join us for the Virtual Reading Group, held regularly online and led by Director Roger Berkowitz and Assistant Director Samantha Hill.
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I am a total newbie to Hannah Arendt. Thankful to have started dipping my toes into her works and for this channel providing her essays and works.
Great talk !!! Thank you 🙏🏻
Hannah Arendt thought very well !!! A true invitation
Thank you, Roger Berkowitz, for your lectures, I am greatly benifittiy from your lectures.
Fantastic resource for an introduction to Arendt! Thanks!
I really appreciate Prof Berkowitz’ approach to Arendt, it is really renewing it feels like. Thanks.
What an opportunity. Fantastic!
That was lovely! Thank you!
Suki said “There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunhill; if anything, the country, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.”
Thank you for such an engaging talk!
i missed the prologue live but thanks for uploading. Loved the Bowie part great! I am looking forward to some future live readings, whenever i can manage to be there. Thank you!
“The work is its own reward.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
Great video. Thank you!!!
thank you so much for your effort ⭐️
Thank you this is a great reading along side.
and perhaps would be great if the links mentioned in the zoom chat, could be also posted here. Great discussion
When I was in China, I was very impress that the parks were filled sunrise to sunset seven days a week, at home people played games, walked, did, did, did. The Chinese people I met that had been to America, stated that they were shocked at American culture to them is shop and watching TV. So it’s not just the lack of work/labor, it’s something else in the culture. I’ve found plenty to do staying home for a year now. I’ve not watch TV once, I make sure that my computer time is very limited. Sew, art projects, etc. Is it because I was brought up to do??? What is the answer?
It sounds lovely. I wonder which year it was , as at the moment it is mostly like this in Chinese cities too...To your question, I think because we are so comfortable with the domestic environments, both physically and socially speaking : )
Is this epilogue to the German edition available online?
I understand that the French placed Hanna Arendt in an internment camp at one point but you said she survived a concentration camp. Is that accurate? Please detail.
That James Kilberd is quite the character
I also think that the digital has turned most of us into laborers, and she would have hated it. Can you talk about that too?
আপোনাৰ উদ্গনি মোলক হৈ থাকিমমোৰ নাম গীতা ৰাণী আপুনি আৰম্ভ কৰা হৈছিল এই পৃথীবিত সকলোৰে বাবে প্ৰয়োজনীয় সকলোবোৰ সামাজিক ও ৰাজনৈতিক কাৰণতে হওঁক এই পৃথীবিত সকলোৰে বাবে প্ৰয়োজনীয় সকলোবোৰ সামাজিক ও ৰাজনৈতিক কাৰণতে হওঁক এই বিষয়ে একো ভুল বুজাবুজিৰ উপক্ৰম হ'লেও কেতিয়াও অকলশৰীয়া অনুভৱ কৰিলে আপুনিয়েই মোক শিকাইছে অভয় হৈ থাকিম আৰু দুয়ো একেলগে বেবসাইটো আগবঢ়ায় নিবপাৰিম আপুনি মোৰ মৰমৰ শ্ৰদ্ধাৰ ভক্তি সন্মান বিশ্বাস প্ৰতিক ৰূপে গণ্য কৰিছোঁ আপোনাক ধন্যবাদ জ্ঞাপন কৰিছোঁ বন্ধু।
I assume this is an atheist perspective. If not, then it is not based on biblical facts about our existence. Ball is a false God, and spoke about in the bible. Christ is our only hope, as evil does exist and cannot be abolished on earth until Christ returns.
Roger’s point about religion giving us value is nonsense. Arendt was aware that if religion can give “us value” it can also devalue us, especially if we are of a different faith. Besides Arendt like many of us was not religious, at least in the Human Condition she doesn’t appear to be.
To Arendt we get our value from how we accomplish what we do, in the arts of course, but also in the crafts, in the sports, and so on.
These achievements she contrasts with “labor” which is what people who work in assembly lines were engaged in. These objects that machines make can’t be distinguished individually as can a pair of shoes by a craftsman.
Arendt says that in the modern world (her world) most work is performed by people which in the past was performed by slaves.
Slaves have no individuality and hence no identities, just as shirts made by machines are indistinguishable and also have no individuality. These are Aristocratic notions which is why Arendt goes to Ancient Greece to look for excellence.
I wish Professor Berkowitz who I’m sure is aware of this, would stop talking down to and read Arendt’s more closely and more critically.
I don’t often agree with Arendt’s position but in the Human Conditions she did compose some beautiful passages which should be read poetically; please give us a close reading of some of these passages. Thank you
Too much taken for granted and ignorance by Arendt, although I am a keen fan of herself and Heidigger, Her films and interviews, keep me mirror smoking. But unfortunately her writing and the lecture herein take for granted the presecence of "A'" bombs,space travel, gravity and the purely the theoretical vis a vis Einstein a fellow German, and his theory of gravitation and E equals MC2. Please any thoughts on this.
Disrespecting MotherEarth as a non culture people is not my interest