Oblong Books Presents Author Roger Berkowitz: "A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World"

Oblong Books presents Roger Berkowitz, author of "A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World," in conversation with Michelle Murray.

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was known to possess a “genius for friendship.” A Jew in Nazi Germany, an exile in Paris and New York, and an uncompromising critic of postwar orthodoxies, she survived and flourished through friendships that were intellectually intense, complicated, and morally demanding. Her tribe of outsiders included thinkers as disparate as Karl Jaspers, Hans Jonas, Mary McCarthy, Gershom Scholem, Heinrich Blücher, and Martin Heidegger.

This book explores how these friendships shaped Arendt’s political thinking. Berkowitz weaves Arendt’s life, thought, and friendships into a powerful meditation on the present moment. In an age of mass loneliness, ideological certainty, and civic breakdown, "A World We Share" connects democracy not to consensus or moral purity but to people's capacity to maintain relationships with others they do not agree with — and cannot fully understand.

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