The visitation of Hannah Arendt /
The Visitation of Hannah Arendt is an attempt to literally enact Arendt's notion of "natality." Arendt, known to a large extent through her engagement with the public sphere and with political discourse, is invited here to pay intimate visitations to four different figures, an anonymo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2020]
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| Series: | Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ;
v. 13. |
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| Summary: | The Visitation of Hannah Arendt is an attempt to literally enact Arendt's notion of "natality." Arendt, known to a large extent through her engagement with the public sphere and with political discourse, is invited here to pay intimate visitations to four different figures, an anonymous student, the poetess Dahlia Ravikovich, the ghost of Stefan Zweig and Michal, Saul's daughter. The intellectual visitation, as a complex process of both mimesis and rejection, is revealed to be a natality, a rebirth in spirit. The book presents an aesthetic-semiotic reading of Arendt by traversing the ensemble of her work. A special chapter is dedicated to Eichmann in Jerusalem. |
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| Physical Description: | 174 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-174). |
| ISBN: | 3110663090 9783110663099 |