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In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt''s work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. Kristeva''s aim is to clarify contradictions in Arendt''s thought as well as correct misapprehensions about her political and philosophical views.

The first two chapters describe how Arendt followed an original conception of human narrative, such that life, action, and even thought, are only human when they can be narrated and thus shared with other persons who, through the evocation of memory, complete the story and make history into a condensed sign, into a revelation of the ''who.'' The third chapter concentrates on Arendt''s work in relation to her twentieth-century contemporaries, especially Isak Dinesen, Brecht, Kafka, and Nathalie Sarraute. In the last two chapters, on the body and the Kantian concept of judgm

Hannah Arendt

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 26 June 2020
      ISBN-13 9781487526429
      978-1487526429
      ISBN-10 1487526423

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt''s work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. Kristeva''s aim is to clarify contradictions in Arendt''s thought as well as correct misapprehensions about her political and philosophical views.

      The first two chapters describe how Arendt followed an original conception of human narrative, such that life, action, and even thought, are only human when they can be narrated and thus shared with other persons who, through the evocation of memory, complete the story and make history into a condensed sign, into a revelation of the ''who.'' The third chapter concentrates on Arendt''s work in relation to her twentieth-century contemporaries, especially Isak Dinesen, Brecht, Kafka, and Nathalie Sarraute. In the last two chapters, on the body and the Kantian concept of judgm

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