The Visitation of Hannah Arendt / Michal Ben-Naftali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Naftali, Michal, Author.

Series:

Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ; Volume 13.

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 174 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1. Visitation

Chapter 2. Rahel’s Dream

Chapter 3. The Visitation of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Chapter 4. An Anonymous Hand in the Middle

Chapter 5. Mother Tongue/Body Language

Chapter 6. Stefan Zweig

Chapter 7. The Visitation of Michal, Daughter of Saul

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

3-11-066347-3

OCLC:

1153532238