Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Human Condition: Second Edition
Hannah Arendt
Happy Valentines Day! In honor of the holiday, we wanted to share this quote on love from Hannah Arendt's "The Human Condition." https://t.co/FOePZoJwjC
Paperback, 2018
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Science of Politics: An Introduction
Eric Voegelin
For the first two weeks of #MarginaliaMonday in May, we will look inside "The New Science of Politics" by Eric Voegelin. Today we look at the back cover - can you parse what Arendt is trying to tell us here? https://t.co/72ULsuWhA0
Paperback, 1987
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Youtube Channel
Virginia Loh-Hagan
Join us this Friday at 1pm for our Virtual Reading Group. We will be reading Race and Bureaucracy, Chapter 7 of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. You can find previous reading group weeks recordings on our YouTube Channel! https://t.co/8WQ3e9EV6Y
Paperback, 2017
$14.21$7.11 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
For all Marginalia Mondays during March we will be looking deeper into one text, Arendt's copy of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" - can you decipher what Arendt is telling us here? #HannahArendt #MarginaliaMonday https://t.co/ml9JtiWjG2
Paperback, 1998
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
W. E. B. Du Bois
What are you reading/teaching for Black History Month? At HAC, we are reading W.E.B Du Bois' Darkwater. This spring in our VRG, join us to read Arendt's writings on race, including her letters to James Baldwin & Ralph Ellison. Learn more: https://t.co/eUMazlcVtf https://t.co/LsXjtrPqXR
Paperback, 1999
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Symposium
Plato
For this week's #MarginaliaMonday we will be taking a look inside of Arendt's copy of "The Symposium" by Plato. Can you decipher what she is telling us here? https://t.co/fNceluQr5Y
Paperback, 2009
$8.94$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Darkwater
W. E. B. Du Bois
What are you reading/teaching for Black History Month? At HAC, we are reading W.E.B Du Bois' Darkwater. This spring in our VRG, join us to read Arendt's writings on race, including her letters to James Baldwin & Ralph Ellison. Learn more: https://t.co/eUMazlcVtf https://t.co/LsXjtrPqXR
Paperback, 2018
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Join us Monday! @nagehanyanar's research initiates a political conversation between Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Hannah Arendt in order to critically interrogate the formation of the public sphere in To the Lighthouse and The Sound and the Fury. https://t.co/nVGIfjfOo4 https://t.co/duXobqi2KW
Paperback, 1991
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy
Franco Baldasso
Franco Baldasso at HAC tonight discussing his book Against Redemption. https://t.co/ifJQjEs5fb
Paperback, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Intruder in the Dust
William Faulkner
"Why does a Jewish scholar end her work on totalitarianism and the Holocaust with a quote from the New Testament? Where does the quote from William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust lead?" Read the full post by Hanno Berger on Medium: https://t.co/mS76Oj714G https://t.co/DPJGKZk75v
Paperback, 1991
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book