Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's" Denktagebuch"

201 Pages·2016·20.32 MB·English

Artifacts of Thinking
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Artifacts of Thinking
Reading Hannah Arendt’s
Denktagebuch
Roger Berkowitz and Ian Storey
Editors
fordham university press
New York 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Berkowitz, Roger, 1968– editor. | Storey, Ian (Ian N.), editor.
Title: Artifacts of thinking : reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch / Roger
Berkowitz and Ian Storey, editors.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017.
| Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2016014313 | ISBN 9780823272174 (cloth : alk. paper)
| ISBN 9780823272181 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Arendt, Hannah, 1906–1975 Denktagebuch. | Political
science—History—20th century.
Classifi cation: LCC JC251.A74 A825 2017 | DDC 320.01—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014313
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For Jerome Kohn and Elisabeth Young-B ruehl
for their long dedication
Das Interpretieren, das Zitieren—doch nur,
um Zeugen zu haben, auch Freunde.
—Hannah Arendt, Denktagebuch XXVII.7
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contents
Introduction
ian storey 1
1. Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation:
Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt’s Politics
roger berkowitz 9
2. On the Truth-a nd- Politics Section in the Denktagebuch
ursula ludz 37
3. “By Relating It”: On Modes of Writing and Judgment
in the Denktagebuch
thomas wild 51
4. Thinking in Metaphors
wout cornelissen 73
5. The Task of Knowledgeable Love: Arendt
and Portmann in Search of Meaning
anne o’byrne 88
6. Vita Passiva: Love in Arendt’s Denktagebuch
tatjana noemi tömmel 106
7. America as Exemplar: The Denktagebuch of 1951
tracy b. strong 124
8. “Poetry or Body Politic”: Natality and the Space of Birth
in Hannah Arendt’s Thought Diary
jeffrey champlin 143
9. Facing the End: The Work of Thinking in the Late
Denktagebuch
ian storey 162
Acknowledgments 181
List of Contributors 183
Index 185
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Artifacts of Thinking
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