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fi gure, but an exploration of her own German-Jewish
identity. N ever before published as Arendt intended,
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now returns to print in the first complete
and critical editio n of the book in any language .
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"So intense was Arendt's identification with Rahel that
R.ah el's letters became Arendt's way o f experi encing
herself as a woman within Jewry, a Jew within Germany, a
voice uplifted aga inst anti-semitism , an unconventional
woman within th e male wo rld of philosophy. Weissberg's
introdu cti o n, a tour de force of post-structural analysis and
psyc hological insight, maps the complexities of
an identification so intense th at it com–
pressed time and transcended space."
-Carroll Smith- R osenberg,
University o f Michigan
" This is a thoroughly up- to-date
editio n of Hannah Arendt's
Rahe/
Vtl mhageIl:
well-translated, carefully
annotated, introduced in terms o f
current concerns with identi ty, the forms
o f biography and autobiography, the
history of German Jewry."
- Elisabeth Yo ung-Bruehl ,
Haverford College
$29.95 hardcover
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