Reflections on Literature and Culture

Hannah Arendt

Published by Stanford University Press 2007

Reflections on Literature and Culture

Hannah Arendt
Edited by: Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

In the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620148

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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 The essays include previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors, poets, journalists, and literary critics,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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Rilke’s Duino Elegies (by Hannah Arendt and Günther Stern) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Review of Hans Weil, The Emergence of the German Principle of “Bildung” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th Anniversary of His Death, June 9, 1932 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. Adam Müller—Renaissance? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
5. Berlin Salon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
6 Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke’s Revisions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in t he World of Yesterday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
9. The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
10. Nightmare and Flight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
11. Franz Kafka, Appreciated Anew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
12. Great Friend of Reality: Adalbert Stifter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
13. French Existentialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
14. No Longer and Not Yet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
15. Proof Positive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
16. The Streets of Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
17. The Too Ambitious Reporter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
18. Beyond Personal Frustration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
19. Preface to Bernard Lazare, Job’s Dungheap Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
20. The Achievement of Hermann Broch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
21. Between Vice and Crime (On Proust) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
22. The Imperialist Character (On Kipling) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
23. The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
24. Culture and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich’s Exhibition Catalog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
26. The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
28. What Is Permitted to Jove...: Reflections on the Poet Bertolt Brecht and His Relation to Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
29. Randall Jarrell, 1914–1965 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
30. Isak Dinesen, 1885–1962 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
31. Notes on Dostoevsky’s Possessed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
32. Emerson Address Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No Donkey Has Lost Me While Galloping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Editorial Note: Texts in German and English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Crossing Aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 400

eBook

Published: February 2, 2007
ISBN: 9781503620148