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Hannah Arendt
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Standard Name: Arendt, Hannah
Birth Name: Johanna Arendt
Married Name: Stern
Married Name: Blücher
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trained as a philosopher and spoke of philosophy as her first love. She became better known for her writings on modern history and political theory, in essays, monographs, and her famous or notorious reporting of the Eichmann
trial.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary McCarthy | MMC
's long-term friendships included those with Edmund Wilson
(even after their divorce) and Hannah Arendt
. She attracted notoriety for her falling-out with Lillian Hellman
, a leading playwright who began to publish memoirs... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary McCarthy | She first started to muse on and explore these ideas after the theft of Vermeer
's painting Young Lady with a Guitar by Irish terrorists during the winter of 1974. She was fascinated by the... |
| Publishing | Sybille Bedford | She had already contributed an article on him to a volume edited by Julian Huxley
in 1965: Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. A Memorial Volume. She later referred to her work on the biography as a... |
| Reception | Colette | She later became its president. In February 1953 she received the Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur
(only the second woman to do so). “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (19 February 1953): 8 |
| Reception | Julia Kristeva | In the early twenty-first century JK
continues to generate a continuous flow of critical comment. She claims a place in women's international literary history as a creator of paradigms applied to other texts. Heather Ingman |
| Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | This volume's title and epigraph are taken from The Great Gatsby. Like AR
's other works, Dark Fields of the Republic reflects a diverse group of artistic and social influences, which include the Bible... |
| Textual Features | Sybille Bedford | Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
, biographer of Hannah Arendt
, points out that this is one of the finest pictures extant of the milieu of the Jewish salon hostess Rahel Varnhagen
(of whom Arendt published a biography). Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press, 2004. 87n5 |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM covered the Eichmann
trial in Jerusalem in 1961 for the Guardian as Hannah Arendt
covered it for the New Yorker. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 61-2 |
| Textual Production | Julia Kristeva | JK
issued in three successive volumes what she calls a triptych: Le génie féminin: La Vie, la folie, les mots: Hannah Arendt
, Melanie Klein
, Colette. Kristeva, Julia. “Is There a Feminine Genius?”. Critical Inquiry, No. 3, pp. 493 -04. 493 and n1 |
| Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | MMC
continued to publish in periodicals: short fiction (with collected volumes of stories in 1950 and 1963), essays, and reviews (Sights and Spectacles 1937-1956 and Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937-1962, two volumes of... |
Timeline
Late February 1925
Philosopher Martin Heidegger
and one of his students, Hannah Arendt
, began an affair: an extraordinary moment bringing together a future apologist for and a lifelong opponent of totalitarianism.
7 April 1944
Rudolf Vrba
and Fred Wetzler
escaped from Auschwitz
in Poland. They headed for Slovakia, where by the end of the month they submitted a report on the Nazi death-camp to the Slovak Judenrat
29 November 1947
The United Nations
passed a resolution which called for the partition of Palestine into two different national entities, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem to become a city under international rule.