The Visitation of Hannah Arendt

by Michal Ben-Naftali

Overview

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.　 　 　　

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110664300
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/06/2020
Series:	Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , #13
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	182
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michal Ben-Naftali, Tel Aviv University, Israel.