Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience

by Dagmar Barnouw and Professor Dagmar Barnouw

Book Overview

Hannah Arendt still makes people angry. Her writings on the modern German-Jewish experience are deliberately challenging -- and sometimes shocking -- to an audience used to thinking of the Jewish people as the victims of history. Visible Spaces is the most ambitious attempt to date to explore the origins and implications of Arendt's political thought. Dagmar Barnouw, an admiring yet critical reader, draws extensively on unpublished archival materials...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801862833
• ISBN13: 9780801862830
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"