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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.
Hannah Arendt married Günther Stern in 1929 but soon began to encounter increasing antisemitism in the 1930s Nazi Germany. In 1933, the year Adolf Hitler came to power, Arendt was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal research into antisemitism. On release, she fled Germany, living in Czechoslovakia and ...
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.”
Walter Benjamin. The New Yorker, October 19, 1968. Abstract: Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame. Benjamin’s position was that of a free-lance writer but his publications were infrequent & he felt that his father should give him a monthly income.
May 24, 2021 · The work of Hannah Arendt offers a fruitful avenue to reflect upon what educational authority could mean and entail. In this article we therefore take Arendt’s views of authority as a vantage point, without undertaking a more general analysis of authority in education.
- Julien Kloeg, Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens
- 2021
A lecture by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of Walter Benjamin given in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York. A rare document. German with English subtitles.
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Eva Geulen recommends the portrait of Walter Benjamin written by Hannah Arendt for a second reading. The text was published in three parts in Merkur in 1968 and takes a unique perspective on the figure of Benjamin.
