Beschreibung:
Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this seminal twentieth-century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides us with an elegant, sophisticated biography brimming with historical and philosophical insight.
An intellectual biography of one of the past century's most important thinkers by a towering figure in French intellectual life.
BibliographyNotesFemale Genius: General IntroductionA Biography "So Exposed''Chapter 1: Life as a NarrativeLove According to Saint AugustineChapter 2: Superfluous HumanityThe Meaning of an Example: Rahel VarnhagenChapter 3: Thinking, Willing, and JudgingArendt and Aristotle: A Defense of NarrationThe Tale of the Twentieth CenturyTo Be JewishAmong the Elements in the StructureThe Example of FranceWhat Is Modern Anti-Semitism?Imperialism... and TotalitarianismThe Banality of EvilFaith and Revolution... in Society, That Sanctified HearthThe "Who'' and the BodyThe Dialogue of the Thinking Ego: The "Split,'' Melancholy, TyrannyFrom the Interior Man to the Violence of the Life ProcessThe Taste of the Spectator: Toward a Political PhilosophyJudgment: Between Forgiveness and Promise