In Debut Episode of For Love of the World (Amor Mundi): Conversations with the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, Host Roger Berkowitz Interviews Leon Botstein

In a new monthly radio show, For Love of the World (Amor Mundi), Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Roger Berkowitz hosts deep conversations about contemporary issues in the Arendtian tradition of “patient humility” with renowned scholars and public intellectuals. In this debut episode, President Leon Botstein joins Berkowitz, talking about his time as Hannah Arendt’s student at University of Chicago from 1963 to 1967. “She was brilliant on her feet,” says Botstein. “You could watch her think. In a small seminar or a large lecture, when you asked her a question, you didn’t get a packaged answer, but you got a glimpse on how someone uses information and ideas, listens to somebody else, turns a problem around, and brings a new insight into what we’re talking about. She really taught how to think.” 

For Love of the World (Amor Mundi) airs the fourth Tuesday of each month from 6:00 to 6:30 pm on Radio Kingston.

Post Date: 05-01-2024