The Visitation of Hannah Arendt

Michal Ben-Naftali

Published by De Gruyter 2020

The Visitation of Hannah Arendt

Michal Ben-Naftali

Volume 13 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110663471

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About this book

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.　　　　

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Michal Ben-Naftali, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Chapter 1. Visitation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Rahel’s Dream Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter 3. The Visitation of Dahlia Ravikovitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 4. An Anonymous Hand in the Middle On Dahlia Ravikovitch’s poem “Hovering at a Low Altitude” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 5. Mother Tongue/Body Language The Intimate Aesthetic of Arendt’s Report on Eichmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chapter 6. Stefan Zweig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 7. The Visitation of Michal, Daughter of Saul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers, students
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 174
Keywords: Hannah Arendt; rebirth; philosophy; Judaism

eBook

Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110663471

Hardcover

Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110663099