{"podcast":{"title":"Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz","slug":"reading-hannah-arendt-with-roger-berkowitz-1160305","podcast_index_feed_id":1160305,"rss_url":"https://hac.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://hac.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4282721/hac_podcast_cover_2500_2mb.png","author":"Hannah Arendt Center","episode_count":100,"summary":"This podcast offers close readings of Arendt’s books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations in the spirit of Hannah Arendt, who thought loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection, but the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is. Visit The Hannah Arendt Center online at hac.bard.edu.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-05T22:21:02.006367+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reading-hannah-arendt-with-roger-berkowitz-1160305"},"episode":{"title":"On Violence II | Crises of the Republic","slug":"on-violence-ii-crises-of-the-republic","published_at":"2026-03-27T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reading-hannah-arendt-with-roger-berkowitz-1160305/on-violence-ii-crises-of-the-republic","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reading-hannah-arendt-with-roger-berkowitz-1160305","url":"https://hac.podbean.com/e/on-violence-ii-crises-of-the-republic/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i29brmhxt2mj6bcv/2026_Crises_OnViolence_II_V2.mp3","summary":"In this week's episode of the podcast, Roger Berkowitz focuses on the second section of Hannah Arendt's essay \"On Violence\" called “Power.\" Recapping part one’s claim that modernity has vastly expanded the means of violence while blurring its political rationality, prompting intellectuals to rationalize violence as manageable and creative, he explains Arendt’s central distinctions among power, strength, force, authority, and violence - arguing that politics is too often reduced to domination. Power, for Arendt, is the human ability to act in concert, belong to groups, and endure only while the group remains; violence is instrumental and can destroy the public world. Berkowitz discusses Arendt’s views on bureaucracy as “rule by nobody,” revolutionary situations when power disintegrates, and Arendt's famous claims that power is the essence of government: power needs legitimacy not justification, and violence can be justified but never legitimate. He distinguishes violence from totalitarian terror. Rate and review if you like this podcast! ABOUT: Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each episode provides listeners with a deeper understanding of Arendt's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary issues. Available on all major podcast platforms, listeners join us on a captivating intellectual journey through the mind of Hannah Arendt. New episodes every Friday morning! Join Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, as he discusses the works of German Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER: The Hannah Aren…","meta_description":"In this week's episode of the podcast, Roger Berkowitz focuses on the second section of Hannah Arendt's essay \"On Violence\" called “Power.\" Recapping part…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3068,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reading-hannah-arendt-with-roger-berkowitz-1160305/episodes/on-violence-ii-crises-of-the-republic/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reading-hannah-arendt-with-roger-berkowitz-1160305/on-violence-ii-crises-of-the-republic.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}