Papers by Roger Berkowitz
Thinking in Dark Times
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Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity, 2022
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UC Irvine law review, 2011
rules, where nuances of specific cases could be lost and individual human concerns would be overr... more rules, where nuances of specific cases could be lost and individual human concerns would be overridden by rational concepts. If legal science becomes too powerful, it could, like positive law, forget and neglect the original source of law in the Volksgeist.47 It is helpful to consider Savigny’s favorite example of insightful legal science. The value of Roman law, he argues, lies not in the laws of Rome themselves, nor even in the principles used by Roman jurists, but in the method through which the Romans combined a mastery of legal principles with an unparalleled insight into the historical life of the Roman Volk.48 Above all else, the Roman jurists excelled at the melding of legal knowledge with insight into the historical unity of the people. “What made Rome great,” Savigny writes, “[was the] active, living political sense with which this people was always ready to rejuvenate its constitution in such a way that the new served merely the development of the old.”49 The Romans saw t...
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Cadernos Arendt, 2021
Hannah Arendt decidiu responder à pergunta “O que é o totalitarismo?” olhando para o nazismo e o ... more Hannah Arendt decidiu responder à pergunta “O que é o totalitarismo?” olhando para o nazismo e o bolchevismo, os dois movimentos totalitários que marcaram a primeira metade do século XX. Ela entendia que o totalitarismo pretendia a evisceração total da liberdade. O governo totalitário visa o “domínio total de toda a população da terra, a eliminação de toda realidade rival não-totalitária”3. Uma vez que uma pessoa que pode pensar e mudar de ideia romperia o controle totalitário da realidade, a dominação total deveria obliterar a espontaneidade e a liberdade. O esforço totalitário é por transformar a pluralidade de pessoas em uma unidade; é “fabricar algo que não existe, isto é, um tipo de espécie humana que se assemelhe a outras espécies animais, e cuja única ‘liberdade’ consista em ‘preservar a espécie’“4. A perda total da liberdade externa e interna é o motor da dominação total
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Liberal Moments, 2016
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Hannaharendt Net, May 20, 2008
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
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The Good Society, 2014
“Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer,” is the new English translati... more “Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer,” is the new English translation of Bettina Stangneth’s exhaustive history of the life of Adolf Eichmann. Her book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to try to understand Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi lieutenant colonel who was responsible for the logistics of the Holocaust. Stangneth has pieced together the scattered transcripts of the interviews Eichmann gave with the Dutch Nazi Willem Sassen in multiple archives; she has tracked down full essays and fragments of Eichmann’s own writing in mislabeled files that have never been considered before; and above all, she has pieced together the written record of Eichmann’s life with a diligence and obsessiveness that is uncanny and likely never to be repeated. Stangneth knows more about Adolf Eichmann than any other person alive and probably more than any person in history, past or future. Stangneth writes that her book has two aims. The first is “to present all the available material, as well as the challenges that come with it.” The second is to engage in a “dialogue with Hannah Arendt, and not simply because I first came to this topic many years ago through Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Stangneth traces her interest in Eichmann to Arendt’s book, a book that in Stangneth’s words, “had the courage to form a clear judgment, even at the risk of knowing too little.” Her plunge into the depths of Eichmann’s soul is an effort to reckon with power and provocation of Arendt’s judgment. Stangneth goes to great lengths to praise Arendt in interviews and in her writing, citing Arendt as an inspiration and model for fearless and A review of Eichman Before Jerusalem: the Unexamined Life of a Mass
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The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis, 2012
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Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 2006
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Introduction: The Burden of Our Times Roger Berkowitz Part I: Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our... more Introduction: The Burden of Our Times Roger Berkowitz Part I: Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times 1. Imperialism and the Current Financial Crisis Tracy B. Strong 2. No Revolution Required Jerome Kohn 3. Disdain for Politics and the Financial Crisis Antonia Grunenberg Part II: Business Values and The Financial Crisis 4. Capitalism, Ethics, and the Financial Crash David Callahan 5. An Interview with Paul Levy Roger Berkowitz 6. An Interview with Vincent Mai Roger Berkowitz 7. Brazil as a Model? Alexander R. Bazelow 8. Interview with Raymundo Magliano Filho Claudia Perrone-Moises 9. Roundtable: The Burden of Our Times Raymond Baker, Rebecca Berlow, Jack Blum, Zachary Karabel, Thomas Scanlon, and Taun Toay Part III: The Crisis of Economics 10. The Roots of the Crisis Sanjay G. Reddy 11. Where Keynes Went Wrong Hunter Lewis 12. Managed Money, the "Great Recession" and Beyond Dimitri B. Papadimitriou 13. Turning the Economy into a Casino David B. Matias and Sophia V. Burres
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Theory & Event, 2010
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Theory & Event, 2011
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The European Legacy, 2013
... The Prince and the Discourses 7 8 Hannah Arendt's annotated copy of The Fede... more ... The Prince and the Discourses 7 8 Hannah Arendt's annotated copy of The Federalist Papers 94 Hannah Arendt, 1933 103 Hannah Arendt's annotated copy of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America 104 The Hannah Arendt Library at Bard College 113 Hannah Arendt's ...
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Philosophy and Literature, 2009
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New Nietzsche Studies, 2005
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Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2005
This paper offers a reading of Clint Eastwood's film Mystic River. Mystic River differs from ... more This paper offers a reading of Clint Eastwood's film Mystic River. Mystic River differs from archetypal Hollywood revenge movies in one important way: the act of revenge kills the wrong man. Moreover, instead of abandoning its wayward avenger, the movie strives to defend or at least to understand the act of wrongful vengeance as the loving act of a kingly father. To explore the connection between trauma, masculinity, and revenge, the paper follows the stories of the film's three male protagonists. Dave is defeated by his boyhood trauma and never recovers. Jimmy, the film's avenger, forcefully resists the dehumanizing power of the loss of his daughter by taking revenge. Sean neither succumbs to trauma nor masters it. Instead, Sean –when confronted by his wife's silent departure and with the fact of Jimmy's vengeance –responds by admitting his vulnerability. An upright man struggling to balance his masculinity with the reality of his tragic limitations, Sean's ...
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Dialogue, 2005
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Acta Juridica, 2009, 2009
In the African Weltanschauung, a person is not basically an independent, solitary entity. A perso... more In the African Weltanschauung, a person is not basically an independent, solitary entity. A person is human precisely in being enveloped in the community of other human beings, in being caught up in the bundle of life. To be . . . is to participate.2 ... I INTRODUCTION Justice Laurie ...
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