Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess - Rilegato

Arendt, Hannah

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ISBN 10: 080185587X ISBN 13: 9780801855870

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Arendt (1907-75) completed the biography of the 18th-century German-Jewish noblewomen in 1933, but because of her flight from Germany could not publish it until 1958. She discovered Rahel's writings in the mid-1920s and saw enough parallels in their lives to use the biography as a backdrop to formulate the political philosophy that comprised the best known aspect of her writing career. Weissberg (German and comparative literature, U. of Pennsylvania) restores Arendt's extensive notes and illuminates the influence of the biography of her later writings. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Recensione:

"Thanks to the diligent researches of Liliane Weissberg, the editor of this new edition... we now finally have the first complete text [of Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess], including the annotations that Arendt herself had been unable to supply because of her abrupt departure from Germany in 1933. For the first time we can find our way through the book's thick forest of quotations and other literary and historical allusions..." -- Amos Elon, New York Review of Books

"Reading Rahel Varnhagen today, I am startled to see that it is neither Jewishness nor womanness that holds my attention. What is striking now are the extraordinary similarities between Rahel's period and our own, and how much a creature of the time she seems to be... Seen against the disturbed and disturbing climate of a time, then as now, in which profound questions of self and world are being asked, Rahel's double portion of outsiderness cannot help but sound a deep note in the responsive reader." -- Vivian Gornick, The Nation

L'autore:

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, On Violence, and Eichmann in Jerusalem, among numerous other books and essays. Liliane Weissberg is Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities and is a professor of German and comparative literature and chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 080185587X
• ISBN 13: 9780801855870
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 388
• Redattore: Weissberg Liliane