The Dialogical Self
Elements of Life Writing in the Works of Hannah Arendt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12648635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha C Grayck (0000-0002-6880-2654, German, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-279 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Life Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1448-4528 • E-ISSN: 1751-2964 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14484528.2020.1723183 |
| OpenAlex | W3007277457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
The objective of this paper is to describe and specify dialogical elements of Hannah Arendt’s essay ‘We Refugees’, correspondence with Karl Jaspers, passages of Eichmann in Jerusalem and 1964 Zur Person television appearance with Günter Gaus. I propose that these elements taken together form the basis for a kind of life-writing, intertwining the intellectual and personal aspects of Arendt’s texts. I suggest that, though Arendt never produced any explicitly autobiographical materials, she did seek to establish a kind of co-constitutive, dialogical and intellectual rapport with both her abstracted readership and intimate interlocutors, thus injecting some subtle but very personal aspects of herself into her theoretical writing. Integral to this project is Arendt’s stated drive to understand and to be understood, which she elaborates on explicitly in Zur Person. In order to effectively contextualise this pursuit, I consider recent critical examinations of Arendt’s works, her correspondence with several close friends, various interviews, and her personal notebooks. I provide further scholarly context by including recent critical work in the area of life writing and autobiography
Art · Audience measurement · Biography · Context (archaeology · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Literature · Order (exchange · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |