Contributors

David Arndt studied literature and philosophy as an undergraduate at Deep Springs College and Yale University, and earned a PhD in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he studied with JeanFrançois Lyotard and Jacques Derrida.

Peter Baehr is a research professor in social theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Etienne Balibar is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Paris–Nanterre and Anniversary Chair of Contemporary European Philosophy at Kingston University, London.

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and a former director of the university’s Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002–8).

Roger Berkowitz is the academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.

Peter Brown is a PhD student in English language and literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Raymond Geuss is emeritus professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Antonia Grunenberg is director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg.

Nacira Guénif-Souilamas is a professor of sociology and anthropology at University Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis.

Samantha Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of political studies at Bard College, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City. She is the author of two forthcoming books: Hannah Arendt, a biography, and Hannah Arendt’s Poems.

Martin E. Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 14 books, including The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–50.

Eric Kaufmann is professor and assistant dean of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Jana Marlene Madar is a PhD candidate and scholarship holder in the Department for German Literature at the University of Munich. She is also a fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and works as an author and translator.

Marwan Mohammed is a sociologist and research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and a visiting scholar at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Philippe Nonet was a lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1966 to 1970 and a visiting professor at Bremen University in 1981. He is the author of Administrative Justice and Law and Society in Transition.

Ellen Rigsby is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California, where she teaches in the Communication Department, and has published works on Ursula Le Guin and Hannah Arendt.

Jana V. Schmidt is a writer, teacher, and translator living in Los Angeles. She is an associate fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and the author of Hannah Arendt und die Folgen and a forthcoming book on Jewish-German exiles and black politics.

Adam Shatz is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and other publications.

Natan Sznaider is a professor of sociology at the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo.

Eric K. Ward is executive director of the Western States Center.

John McWhorter is associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, teaching linguistics, Western civilization, and music history.

Marc Weitzmann is the author of 12 books, including Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France.

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool, and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the London Review of Books, among others.

About Bard College

Founded in 1860, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is an independent, residential, coeducational college offering a four-year BA program in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year BA/BS degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a BMus and a BA in a field other than music. Bard offers MMus degrees in conjunction with the Conservatory and The Orchestra Now, and at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following degrees: AA at Bard High School Early College, a public school with campuses in New York City, Baltimore, Cleveland, Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.; AA and BA at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and through the Bard Prison Initiative at six correctional institutions in New York State; MA in curatorial studies, MS and MA in economic theory and policy, and MS in environmental policy and in climate science and policy at the Annandale campus; MFA and MAT at multiple campuses; MBA in sustainability in New York City; and MA, MPhil, and PhD in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. Internationally, Bard confers BA and MAT degrees at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem and American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; BA degrees at Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University; and BA and MA degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny).

Bard offers nearly 50 academic programs in four divisions. Total enrollment for Bard College and its affiliates is approximately 6,000 students. The undergraduate College has an enrollment of about 1,800 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. In 2016, Bard acquired the Montgomery Place estate, bringing the size of the campus to nearly 1,000 acres. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.

JOURNALS

VOLUME 1/2012 Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age without Facts Human Being in an Inhuman Age

VOLUME 2/2014 Does the President Matter? A Conference on the American Age of Political Disrepair

VOLUME 3/2015 The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For? Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis

VOLUME 4/2016 Why Privacy Matters

VOLUME 5/2017 Real Talk: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex, and Religion

VOLUME 6/2018 Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times

VOLUME 7/2019 Racism and Antisemitism

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