Name: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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Author: Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 9780804744997

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Hannah Arendt

Illustrated by

Susannah Young-Ah Gottlieb

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.7 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.53 kg.

ISBN

0804744998

ISBN13

9780804744997

Edition No.

Synopsis "Reflections on Literature and Culture (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)"

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 The essays include previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors, poets, journalists, and literary critics,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

Hannah Arendt

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(Hannover, Alemania, 1906 - Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 1975) Arendt se ha erigido, como uno de los puntos de referencia fundamentales para el conocimiento de la filosofía política. Nacida en Hannover, estudió en Marburgo, Friburgo y Heidelberg, donde se graduó en Filosofía. En 1933, cuando los nazis ocuparon el poder, emigró a París. Más tarde se instaló en Estados Unidos, donde dirigió la Conferencia sobre las Relaciones Judías (1944-1946) y también la Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. Fue catedrática en la Universidad de Chicago y enseñó asimismo en Columbia, Princeton y Berkeley.

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