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Reflections on literature and culture, Hannah Arendt ; edited and with an Introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-350) and index

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Reflections on literature and culture

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Hannah Arendt ; edited and with an Introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

This edition brings together for the first time Arendt's reflections on literature and culture including previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors, poets, journalists, and literary critics,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 introduces Arendt 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

1. Rilke's Duino elegies (with Günther Stern) -- 2. Review of Hans Weil, The emergence of the German principle of "Bildung" -- 3. Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th anniversary of his death, June 9, 1932 -- 4. Adam Müller--Renaissance? -- 5. Berlin salon -- 6. Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke's revisions -- 7. Review of Käte Hamburger, Thomas Mann and Romanticism -- 8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in the world of yesterday -- 9. The Jew as pariah: a hidden tradition -- 10. Nightmare and flight -- 11. Franz Kafka, appreciated anew -- 12. Great friend of reality: Adalbert Stifter -- 13. French existentialism -- 14. No longer and not yet -- 15. Proof positive -- 16. The streets of Berlin -- 17. The too ambitious reporter -- 18. Beyond personal frustration: the poetry of Bertolt Brecht -- 19. Introduction to Bernard Lazare, Job's dungheap -- 20. The achievement of Hermann Broch -- 21. Between vice and crime (on Proust) -- 22. The imperialist character (on Kipling) -- 23. The permanence of the world and the work of art -- 24. Culture and politics -- 25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's exhibition catalog -- 26. The social question (on Melville and Dostoevski) -- 27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The golden fruits -- 28. What Is permitted to Jove ... : reflections on the poet Bertolt Brecht and his relation to politics -- 29. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 -- 30. Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 -- 31. Dostoevski's Possessed -- 32. Emerson address -- 33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No donkey has lost me while galloping -- 34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, who died in the night of the twenty-eighth of September, 1973