Summary: The brief biography below was a written for a German language Hannah Arendt Handbuch, which will be published in 2010 by Metzler Verlag. It condenses my full-scale biography Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, published by Yale University Press in 1982, with a second edition in 2006.
The short article was published in Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, edited by Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan (Fordham University Press, 2010). It was earlier a presentation at a Bard College conference to celebrate Arendt’s centenary in 2006. You can visit the Bard College Hannah Arendt Center at its website, which is connected to the Bard College Library, housing the library Arendt left the College in her will.
HANNAH ARENDT IN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL LIFE (2000)
Background: This article was commissioned by the Zurich-based magazine DU: Die Zeitschrift der Kujltur, and published there in October 2000 as part of a special issue called Hannah Arendt: Mut Zum Politischen!
ON THE ORIGINS OF A NEW TOTALITARIANISM (October, 2001)
This article below was published in the journal SOCIAL RESEARCH, Summer 2002.
It was prepared for a New School conference marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. The conference took place a few weeks after the 9/11 attack, and it organizers agreed to have its concluding session consist of a discussion of the attack and what it might mean.
This lecture was delivered on October 7, 2010 as the 2010 Hannah Arendt Lecture in the
Soeterbeeck Progamme, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Below are three statements about Venezuela. The first is an article that was published on August 17, 2007 in the online version of The Nation. It was the subject of a good deal of discussion in The Nation’s online pages, mostly by readers who thought it to be too anti-chavista. A Spanish translation by Oscar Reyes was published in Venezuala. In December, 2007, I sent another post to The Nation’s associate editor Richard Kim, commenting on the failed referendum in Venezuela, and that is second below. Third, on the request of my Spanish translator Oscar Reyes, I wrote a comment on the Venezuelan student movement and Hannah Arendt’s opinioins about the American student movement of 1968. Reyes translated my letter into Spanish, but it has not been published in English.
