Rahel Varnhagen
By Hannah Arendt
Introduction by Barbara Hahn
Translated by Clara Winston and Richard Winston
By Hannah Arendt
Introduction by Barbara Hahn
Translated by Clara Winston and Richard Winston
By Hannah Arendt
Introduction by Barbara Hahn
Translated by Clara Winston and Richard Winston
By Hannah Arendt
Introduction by Barbara Hahn
Translated by Clara Winston and Richard Winston
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$18.95
Feb 22, 2022 | ISBN 9781681375892
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Feb 22, 2022 | ISBN 9781681375908
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$18.95
Feb 22, 2022 | ISBN 9781681375892
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Feb 22, 2022 | ISBN 9781681375908
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Praise
âArendt probes so deeply into her subjectâs inner life, and writes so vividly about her frustrations and sorrows, that the biography often reads like a novel. . . . an imaginative mix of biography and social commentary that still feels, as the scholar Barbara Hahn writes in her introduction, thoroughly âahead of its time.'â âLily Meyer, NPR
âIn recounting Varnhagenâs life, Arendt documents the paradoxes of German Jewsâ emancipation between the breakdown of the Jewish ghetto in the eighteenth century and the emergence of the nineteenth-century bourgeois Christian nation-state. . . . What interested her was the evolution of Varnhagenâs psychology and, especially, her Jewish identity.â âSeyla Benhabib, New York Review of Books
âReading Rahel Varnhagen today, I am startled to see that it is neither Jewishness nor womanness that holds my attention. What is striking now are the extraordinary similarities between Rahelâs period and our own. . . . Seen against the disturbed and disturbing climate of a time, then as now, in which profound questions of self and world are being asked, Rahelâs double portion of outsiderness cannot help but sound a deep note in the responsive reader.â âVivian Gornick, The Nation
âArendtâs insight into the psychology and the situation of pariah and parvenu is essential.â âKirkus Reviews
âIf you know about Rahel Varnhagen, itâs probably because of Hannah Arendt.â âTalya Zax, Forward
âA veritable laboratory of Arendtâs political thought.â âJulia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt