| The Visitation of Hannah Arendt Contributor(s): Ben-Naftali, Michal (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110663090 ISBN-13: 9783110663099 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $107.34 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Literary Criticism | Jewish |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.96 lbs) 182 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Visitation of Hannah Arendt is an attempt to literally enact Arendt's notion of "natality". Arendt, known to a large extent through her engagement with the public sphere and with political discourse, is invited here to pay intimate visitations to four different figures: an anonymous student, the poetess Dahlia Ravikovich, the ghost of Stefan Zweig and Michal, Saul's daughter. The intellectual visitation, as a complex process of both mimesis and rejection, is revealed to be a natality, a rebirth in spirit. The book presents an aesthetic-semiotic reading of Arendt by traversing the ensemble of her work. A special chapter is dedicated to Eichmann in Jerusalem. |