Reflections on Literature and Culture

This is the first time Hannah Arendt's writings on literature and culture have been made available in a single volume. In addition to gathering together essays hitherto dispersed in a variety of English publications, it includes previously unpublished and untranslated material. Drawing on half a century of Arendt's thinking, this volume has the potential to transform the field of Arendt scholarship by revealing Arendt to be not only one of the leading political theorists of her generation, but also a serious and highly original critic who had great insight about the important literary figures and major cultural events of her day. Book jacket.

Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, where she is currently the Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English. She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford, 2003).