Reflections on Literature and Culture

by Arendt, Hannah

• ISBN13: 9780804744997
• ISBN10: 0804744998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-17
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This is the first time Hannah Arendt's writings on literature and culture have been made available in a single volume. In addition to gathering together essays hitherto dispersed in a variety of English publications, it includes previously unpublished and untranslated material. Drawing on half a century of Arendt's thinking, this volume has the potential to transform the field of Arendt scholarship by revealing Arendt to be not only one of the leading political theorists of her generation, but also a serious and highly original critic who had great insight about the important literary figures and major cultural events of her day. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, where she is currently the Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English. She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford, 2003).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Rilke's Duino Elegies	p. 1
The Emergence of the German Principle of "Bildung"	p. 24
Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th Anniversary of His Death, June 9, 1932	p. 31
Renaissance?	p. 38
Berlin Salon	p. 46
Rilke's Revisions	p. 54
Thomas Mann and Romanticism	p. 56
Jews in the World of Yesterday	p. 58
A Hidden Tradition	p. 69
Nightmare and Flight	p. 91
Appreciated Anew	p. 94
Great Friend of Reality	p. 110
French Existentialism	p. 115
No Longer and Nor Yet	p. 121
Proof Positive	p. 126
The Streets of Berlin	p. 128
The Too Ambitious Reporter	p. 130
Beyond Personal Frustration: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht	p. 133
Job's Dungheap	p. 143
The Achievement of Hermann Broch	p. 148
Between Vice and Crime (On Proust)	p. 156
The Imperialist Character (On Kipling)	p. 167
The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art	p. 172
Culture and Politics	p. 179
Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's Exhibition Catalog	p. 203
The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski)	p. 206
The Golden Fruits	p. 214
What Is Permitted to Jove...: Reflections on the Poet Bertolt Brecht and His Relation to Politics	p. 223
Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965	p. 257
Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962	p. 262
Notes on Dostoevsky's Possessed	p. 275
Emerson Address	p. 282
No Donkey Has Lost Me While Galloping	p. 285
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973	p. 294
Editorial Note: Texts in German and English	p. 303
Notes	p. 305
Index	p. 351
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