Reflections on literature and culture / editor Hannah Arendt with an introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arendt, Hannah, Author.

Contributor:

Arendt, Hannah, editor.

Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah, writer of introduction.

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 361 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2007]

Summary:

As one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt is well known for her writings on political philosophy. Less familiar are her significant contributions to cultural and literary criticism. This edition brings together for the first time Arendt’s reflections on literature and culture. The essays include previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors, poets, journalists, and literary critics, including such diverse figures as Proust, Melville, Auden, and Brecht. Intended for a wide readership, this volume has the potential to change our view of Arendt by introducing her not only as one of the leading political theorists of her generation, but also as a serious, committed, and highly original literary and cultural critic. Gottlieb’s introduction ties the work together, showing how Arendt developed a form of literary and cultural analysis that is entirely her own.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Rilke’s Duino Elegies (by Hannah Arendt and Günther Stern)

2. Review of Hans Weil, The Emergence of the German Principle of “Bildung”

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

4. Adam Müller—Renaissance?

5. Berlin Salon

6 Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke’s Revisions

8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in t he World of Yesterday

9. The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition

10. Nightmare and Flight

11. Franz Kafka, Appreciated Anew

12. Great Friend of Reality: Adalbert Stifter

13. French Existentialism

14. No Longer and Not Yet

15. Proof Positive

16. The Streets of Berlin

17. The Too Ambitious Reporter

18. Beyond Personal Frustration

19. Preface to Bernard Lazare, Job’s Dungheap

20. The Achievement of Hermann Broch

21. Between Vice and Crime (On Proust)

22. The Imperialist Character (On Kipling)

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

24. Culture and Politics

25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich’s Exhibition Catalog

26. The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski)

27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits

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

29. Randall Jarrell, 1914–1965

30. Isak Dinesen, 1885–1962

31. Notes on Dostoevsky’s Possessed

32. Emerson Address

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

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

Editorial Note: Texts in German and English

Notes

Index

Crossing Aesthetics

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 18, 2022).

ISBN:

1-5036-2014-X

OCLC:

1312725882