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Article: Hannah Arendt. Reflections on Literature and Culture/Die unbewältigte Sprache. Hannah Arendts Theorie der Dichtung
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- German Quarterly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Gottlieb, Susannah Young-Ah, ed. and intro. Hannah Arendt. Reflections on Literature and Culture. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007.400 pp. $24.95 paperback.
Schestag, Thomas. Die unbewältigte Sprache. Hannah Arendts Theorie der Dichtung. Basel: Engeler, 2006. 245 pp. euro22.00 paperback.
There are good reasons to read Susannah Young-Ah Gottlieb's recent anthology of Hannah Arendt's writings, Reflections on Literature and Culture. First, it offers insight into one origin of Arendt's political thought: her readings of literary texts and her understanding of European culture. Those interested in the sources for her thinking on radical democracy, for instance, will find Chapters 23 ...