Roger Berkowitz is founder and academic director of the
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He is co-editor of
Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch, published last month by Fordham University Press.
Professor Berkowitz’s books include
The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (Harvard, 2005; Fordham, 2010; Chinese Law Press 2011);
Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009) (co-editor with Jeffrey Katz and Thomas Keenan); and
The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) (co-editor with Taun Toay). His writing has appeared in
The New York Times,
The American Interest,
Bookforum,
The Paris Review,
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. He is the editor of
HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center, and a co-editor of
Just Ideas, a book series published by Fordham University Press. He also runs the Hannah Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading Group.