Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch

by Roger Berkowitz (Editor), Ian Storey (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823272181
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2017
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Ian Storey is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

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 Tömmel
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

Editorial Reviews

“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.

Johns Hopkins University - Jennifer Culbert

"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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