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Reading with Hannah Arendt : Literature, Criticism, Theory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Timár, Andrea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.
- Arendt, Hannah.
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Influence.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Politics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- One of the first books to examine Hannah Arendt's work by putting it in conversation with a series of literary works from writers such as Melville, Brecht, and Sarraute, this book addresses the main puzzles of Arendt's work and offers nuanced and innovative analyses of her strengths and shortcomings.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Arendt's Critique of Compassion
- Storytelling
- Zoe and Bios
- Speech and Nonspeech
- Literature?
- Conversation
- Notes
- 1 Against Compassion: Posttraumatic Stories in Arendt, Benjamin, Melville, and Coleridge
- Coleridge and Arendt
- Sentimentality Versus Solidarity
- Testimonies: How to Tell a Story?
- "One must first of all be 'moved' " 110
- 2 Billy Budd's Stutter: Arendt, Sedgwick, Cavarero
- Billy Budd's Stutter
- Critiques of Violence
- Inclination and In-betweenness
- The Politicization of the Nonpolitical
- 3 Art and Politics: Brecht, Arendt, Ranci è re, Hartman
- Ranci è re's Critique of Arendt
- Compassion: John Adams and Bertold Brecht
- The Ballad Form
- Brecht, Arendt, Hartman
- 4 Arendt and Literary Pedagogy
- Reading Arendt Reading: Heart of Darkness
- The Literature Seminar
- Taste and Opinion
- Representative Thinking, Discussion, and Literary Pedagogy
- 5 The Monstrous Distortion of Taste: Arendt and Nathalie Sarraute
- Rotten to the Core
- The Social and the "Ugly Psyche": Conversation and Sub-conversation
- The Monstrous Distortion of Taste
- Open Ending
- 6 Law and Justice in Dezs ő Kosztol á nyi and Doris Lessing
- Justice
- Compassion and Representative Thinking
- 7 Mutual Recognition: Reading Arendt with Esposito
- The Bacchae
- Greece and Rome
- Arendt and Esposito
- Birth (Esposito)
- Natality (Arendt)
- New Alliances
- 8 Literary Vaccine: Reading Death in Venice with Arendt After COVID-19
- Death in Venice
- Vaccine
- 9 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Timár, Andrea Reading with Hannah Arendt
- ISBN:
- 9781350560161
- OCLC:
- 1592689509
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