My Account Log in

1 option

Reading with Hannah Arendt : Literature, Criticism, Theory.

Bloomsbury Collections: Literary Studies 2026 Available online

View online
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

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account