The Visitation of Hannah Arendt
| By: | Michal Ben-Naftali |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110663099 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110664300 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2020 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.