"Artifacts of Thinking contributes new and important work to scholarship on Hannah Arendt's thinking. The essays included in the volume take up familiar topics in Arendt's thought but informed by her private 'thought diary' take up these topics in unusual and provocative ways. The book also introduces German scholars of Arendt to English-only readers of Arendt and the inclusion of their voices in the conversion opens up exciting horizons for research and study." -- -Jennifer Culbert Johns Hopkins University

Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s “Denktagebuch” offers a path through Hannah Arendt’s recently published Denktagebuch, or “Book of Thoughts.” In this book a number of innovative Arendt scholars come together to ask how we should think about these remarkable writings in the context of Arendt’s published writing and broader political thinking. Unique in its form, the Denktagebuch offers brilliant insights into Arendt’s practice of thinking and writing. Artifacts of Thinking provides an introduction to the Denktagebuch as well as a glimpse of these fascinating but untranslated fragments that reveal not only Arendt’s understanding of “the life of the mind” but her true lived experience of it.
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Artifacts of Thinking is a collection of essays exploring a combination of the intellectual concerns and thoughts of Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch, and the methodological questions of how to treat unpublished writings and engaging with the private intellectual life of a highly public figure.
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1. Introduction Ian Storey 2. Reconciling Oneself with Reality, Whatever It May Be Roger Berkowitz 3. On the Truth-and-Politics Section in Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch Ursula Ludz 4. On the Relationship Between Modes of Writing and Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch and Her Reflections on History Thomas Wild 5. Thinking in Metaphors Wout Cornelissen 6. The Task of Knowledgeable Love: Arendt and Portmann in Search of Meaning Anne O'Byrne 7. Vita Passiva: Love in Arendt's Denktagebuch Tatjana Noemi Tommel 8. America as Exemplar: The Denktagebuch of 1951 Tracy Strong 9. Poetry or the Body Politic Jeffrey Champlin 10. Facing the End: The Work of Thinking in the Late Denktagebuch Ian Storey Acknowledgments Notes List of Contributors Index
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“Artifacts of Thinking contributes new and important work to scholarship on Hannah Arendt’s thinking. The essays included in the volume take up familiar topics in Arendt’s thought but informed by her private ‘thought diary’ take up these topics in unusual and provocative ways. The book also introduces German scholars of Arendt to English-only readers of Arendt and the inclusion of their voices in the conversion opens up exciting horizons for research and study.”---—Jennifer Culbert, Johns Hopkins University
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780823272181
Publisert
2017-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200

Om bidragsyterne

Roger Berkowitz is the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Associate Professor of Politics, Human Rights, and Philosophy at Bard College.