Unlearning With Hannah Arendt
Autor*in: Knott, Marie Luise
Jahr: 2014
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 151 S.
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- Inhalt:
- Examines the ways that Hannah Arendt effectively "unlearned" prevailing cultural and philosophical trends in order to formulate the theoretical concept of the "banality of evil" after observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
- Marie Luise Knott is a journalist, translator, and author living in Berlin. In 1995 she founded the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique and has been its editor-in-chief for the past eleven years. She has written numerous works on art and literature, as well as two important studies of Hannah Arendt. David Dollenmayer is an emeritus professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His translations include works by Rolf Bauerdick, Bertolt Brecht, Elias and Veza Canetti, Peter Stephan Jungk, Michael Kleeberg, Perikles Monioudis, Anna Mitgutsch, Mietek Pemper, and Hansjörg Schertenleib. He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize (for Moses Rosenkranz's Childhood) and the 2010 Translation Prize of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York (for Michael Köhlmeier's Idyll with Drowning Dog).
Titelinformationen
Titel: Unlearning With Hannah Arendt
Autor*in: Knott, Marie Luise
Verlag: Random House Digital Dist
ISBN: 9781590516485
Kategorie: Sachmedien & Ratgeber, Religion & Philosophie
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 14 Tage