Reflections on literature and culture / Hannah Arendt ; edited and with an Introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Contributor:

Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah.

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Translations into English.

Arendt, Hannah.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 360 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This is the first time Hannah Arendt's writings on literature and culture have been made available in a single volume. In addition to gathering together essays hitherto dispersed in a variety of English publications, it includes previously unpublished and untranslated material. Drawing on half a century of Arendt's thinking, this volume has the potential to transform the field of Arendt scholarship by revealing Arendt to be not only one of the leading political theorists of her generation, but also a serious and highly original critic who had great insight about the important literary figures and major cultural events of her day.

Contents:

1 Rilke's Duino Elegies / Hannah Arendt, Gunther Stern 1

2 Review of Hans Weil, The Emergence of the German Principle of "Bildung" 24

3 Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th Anniversary of His Death, June 9, 1932 31

4 Adam Muller-Renaissance? 38

5 Berlin Salon 46

6 Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke's Revisions 54

7 Review of Kate Hamburger, Thomas Mann and Romanticism 56

8 Stefan Zweig: Jews in the World of Yesterday 58

9 The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition 69

10 Nightmare and Flight 91

11 Franz Kafka, Appreciated Anew 94

12 Great Friend of Reality: Adalbert Stifter 110

13 French Existentialism 115

14 No Longer and Not Yet 121

15 Proof Positive 126

16 The Streets of Berlin 128

17 The Too Ambitious Reporter 130

18 Beyond Personal Frustration: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht 133

20 The Achievement of Hermann Broch 148

21 Between Vice and Crime (On Proust) 156

22 The Imperialist Character (On Kipling) 167

23 The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art 172

24 Culture and Politics 179

25 Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's Exhibition Catalog 203

26 The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski) 206

27 Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits 214

28 What Is Permitted to Jove...: Reflections on the Poet Bertolt Brecht and His Relation to Politics 223

29 Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 257

30 Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 262

31 Notes on Dostoevsky's Possessed 275

32 Emerson Address 282

33 Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No Donkey Has Lost Me While Galloping 285

34 Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973 294

Editorial Note: Texts in German and English 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-350) and index.

ISBN:

080474498X

9780804744980

0804744998

9780804744997

OCLC:

71005835