Hannah Arendt and The Human Condition
4 Sundays at 1:00 p.m. ET
Feb. 1 - 22
All classes will be recorded and sent to registrants.
What does it mean to truly be in touch with the world around us in 2026? The Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt can tell us.
Originally conceived as "Amor Mundi," or love of the world, Hannah Arendt’s 1958 book "The Human Condition" is a searching meditation on what it means to share the Earth with others.
In this new My Jewish Learning online course with Arendt expert and biographer Samantha Rose Hill, you will dive into this iconic text, which remains as timely as ever — and along the way, you'll learn about how Arendt's Jewish roots informed her acclaimed philosophical writings.
In "The Human Condition," Arendt examines the conditions under which freedom in the modern world might be saved or lost, against the backdrop of technological acceleration, growing alienation, and a pervasive sense of rootlessness and loneliness in our everyday lives.
Drawing our attention to an array of uniquely human acts — promises, forgiveness, thinking, poetry, art and judgment — Arendt offers a vocabulary for thinking about what it means to be human today, while asking us to simply "stop and think what we are doing."
Join us for this meaningful intellectual journey and look at 2026 through new eyes!
This course will primarily focus on the book "The Human Condition" which is not included in the course price. You can purchase it here or at a bookseller of your choice.
There are no refunds for this course.
About Your Teacher
Samantha Rose Hill is the author of the biography "Hannah Arendt" (2021) and the editor and translator of "What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt" (2024). She is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Jewish Review of Books, Commonweal, Lapham’s Quarterly, LitHub, Aeon, and the journals Public Seminar, Contemporary Political Theory, and Theory & Event.
Recommended purchase
Your teacher highly recommends buying the book that this course is focused on to get the most out of class, although it is not required. She will analyze parts of the text in each lesson.
You can purchase it here or at a bookseller of your choice. (It is not included in the course price.)
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