Friendship Vs Polarization
Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College and the author of A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World (Yale University Press, 2026) draws on the work of Hannah Arendt to argue that the ability to be friends and disagree is the key to healing divisions.
=> EVENT: On October 19th at 7pm Roger Berkowitz will be in conversation with Roosevelt Montás for a discussion about his new book, A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World.
Photo: Portrait of German-born American political theorist and author Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975). (Photo by Fred Stein Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
