Title:
What remains : the collected poems of Hannah Arendt
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Date:
2025
Publication Information:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, 2025.
©2025
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 172 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781324090526
Abstract:
The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is world-renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. Not many people know that she also wrote poems--yet the language of poetry, especially that of Goethe and Schiller, was a banister for Arendt's thinking throughout much of her adult life. Between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them acting as signposts in her biography, marking moments of great joy, love, loss, melancholia, and remembrance. Now, for the first time in English, Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill present these intensely personal poems in chronological order, taking us from the zenith of the Weimar Republic to the Cold War, and from Marburg, Germany, to New York, New York.
Contents:
Introduction: The mother tongue -- A note on the translation -- Part I: 1923-1926. Winter 1923-1924 -- Summer 1924 -- Summer 1925 -- Winter 1925-1926 -- Part II: 1942-1961. 1942 -- 1943 -- 1946 -- 1947 -- 1948 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- 1960 -- 1961 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Alternate version and translation of "Und keine Kunde" -- Appendix B: Previous publication history.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Parallel text in German and English
