Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah.

Description

xxxi, 360 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Uniform Title

• Essays. English. Selections
• Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subjects

• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 > Translations into English
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Civilization, Modern > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-350) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-6607

ISBN

• 080474498X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804744980 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804744998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780804744997 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006026914

OCLC

71005835

Author

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Title

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

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Series

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-350) and index.

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Table of contents only

Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-6607