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Sep 4, 2023 · In 1968, twenty-eight years after Walter Benjamin’s death, Hannah Arendt published a literary portrait of Benjamin that questioned the Frankfurt School’s editorial infringements on and interpretive appropriations of Benjamin’s work.
Jun 19, 2018 · Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater.
An intimate and intellectual lecture given by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of her friend and colleague in the philosophical field, Walter Benjamin. Delivered in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York, Arendt's speech paid tribute to Benjamin's ideologies surrounding linguistic philosophy, history and literature.
Jun 14, 2021 · Fewer people know her in association with poetry. What first drew you to work on a book on Hannah Arendt’s poems? Was she an appreciator of poetry, and would you say in many of her prose writings she herself has a poetic voice? Arendt poetry, 1942. Hannah Arendt Papers, Manuscript Division.
Dec 16, 2019 · Hannah Arendt writes to Gershom Scholem that Benjamin died on September 29. We will never know what happened to Walter Benjamin, or his leather attaché case, but we do know (in part) what happened with his final work, “Theses on the Philosophy of History.”
In January one of his new young friends from the camp killed himself, mostly for personal reasons. This suicide preoccupied Benjamin to an extraordinary extent; and in all the discussions about it, with a truly passionate vehemence, he stood with those who defended the young man’s decision.
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This thesis takes a diagram of Walter Benjamin’s Urbekanntschaften (‘primal acquaintances’) as its starting point to explore questions of friendship and generation in relation to history, as manifested through Benjamin’s work and biography. The diagram, drawn hastily in the corner of a notebook in 1932, includes 48 names connected by lines.
