• Introduction: "Why have we been spared?" / Marie Luise Knott
• Part one. The letters
• Part two. Documents ; Document one: Field report no. 12; Document two: field report no. 15; Document three: Field report no. 16; Document four: Field report no. 18; Document Five: final report to the JCR Commission.

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence. Arendt and Scholem met in 1932 in Berlin and quickly bonded over their mutual admiration for and friendship with Walter Benjamin. They began exchanging letters in 1939, and their lively correspondence continued until 1963, when Scholem's vehement disagreement with Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem led to a rupture that would last until Arendt's death a dozen years later. The years of their friendship, however, yielded a remarkably rich bounty of letters: together, they try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, the place and legacy of Germany before and after the Holocaust, the question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world, and more. Walter Benjamin is a constant presence, as his life and tragic death are emblematic of the very questions that preoccupied the pair. Like any collection of letters, however, the book also has its share of lighter moments: accounts of travels, gossipy dinner parties, and the quotidian details that make up life even in the shadow of war and loss. In a world that continues to struggle with questions of nationalism, identity, and difference, Arendt and Scholem remain crucial thinkers. This volume offers us a way to see them, and the development of their thought, anew.
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• Introduction: "Why have we been spared?" / Marie Luise Knott
• Part one. The letters
• Part two. Documents ; Document one: Field report no. 12; Document two: field report no. 15; Document three: Field report no. 16; Document four: Field report no. 18; Document Five: final report to the JCR Commission.

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence. Arendt and Scholem met in 1932 in Berlin and quickly bonded over their mutual admiration for and friendship with Walter Benjamin. They began exchanging letters in 1939, and their lively correspondence continued until 1963, when Scholem's vehement disagreement with Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem led to a rupture that would last until Arendt's death a dozen years later. The years of their friendship, however, yielded a remarkably rich bounty of letters: together, they try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, the place and legacy of Germany before and after the Holocaust, the question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world, and more. Walter Benjamin is a constant presence, as his life and tragic death are emblematic of the very questions that preoccupied the pair. Like any collection of letters, however, the book also has its share of lighter moments: accounts of travels, gossipy dinner parties, and the quotidian details that make up life even in the shadow of war and loss. In a world that continues to struggle with questions of nationalism, identity, and difference, Arendt and Scholem remain crucial thinkers. This volume offers us a way to see them, and the development of their thought, anew.
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• Vorwort
• Briefe 1939 bis 1975 / Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders
• An Günther Anders : 1939 bis 1941
• Briefwechsel : 1955 bis 1975
• Abbildungen
• Drei Briefe von Günther Anders an Lion Feuchtwanger (1941)
• Texte
• Rilkes Duineser Elegien (1930) / Hannah Arendt, Günther Stern
• Philosophie und Soziologie Anlässlich Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie (1930) / Hannah Arendt
• Über die sogenannte "Seinsverbundenheit" des Bewusstseins : Anlässlich Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie (1930) / Günther Stern
• Disposition für die Unfertigkeit des Menschen und der Begriff "Fortschritt" [1940/41] / Günther Anders
• In Memoriam Walter Benjamin
• Das Vermächtnis (1940) / Günther Anders
• W.B. (1942) / Hannah Arendt
• [Wahrheit der Diktion] (1950) / Günther Anders
• Anmerkungen zu den Briefen
• Nachwort der Herausgeberin : Korrespondenzen : Hannah Arendt und Günther Anders
• Editorische Notiz
• Zeittafel Hannah Arendt
• Zeittafel Günther Anders
• Verzeichnisse
• Abkürzungen
• Im Briefwechsel erwähnte Werke von Hannah Arendt
• Im Briefwechsel erwähnte Werke von Günther Anders
• Im Briefwechsel erwähnte Werke Dritter
• Literaturverzeichnis und abgekürzt zitierte Literatur
• Verzeichnis der Briefe
• Verzeichnis der Erstveröffentlichungen
• Abbildungsnachweis
• Personenregister.

As one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt is well known for her writings on political philosophy. Less familiar are her significant contributions to cultural and literary criticism. This edition brings together for the first time Arendt's reflections on literature and culture. The essays include previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors, poets, journalists, and literary critics, including such diverse figures as Proust, Melville, Auden, and Brecht. Intended for a wide readership, this volume has the potential to change our view of Arendt by introducing her not only as one of the leading political theorists of her generation, but also as a serious, committed, and highly original literary and cultural critic. Gottlieb's introduction ties the work together, showing how Arendt developed a form of literary and cultural analysis that is entirely her own.
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• v. 1. Juin 1950-février 1954
• v. 2. Mars 1954-1973.

• On humanity in dark times; thoughts about Lessing.--Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919.--Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; a Christian on St. Peter's chair from 1958 to 1963.--Karl Jaspers; a laudatio.--Karl Jaspers: citizen of the world?--Isak Dinesen, 1885-1963.--Hermann Broch, 1886-1951.--Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940.--Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956.--Waldemar Gurian, 1903-1954.--Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965.

• Vorwort
• Lachen : Wie der Geist sich plötzlich wendet
• Die Zuversicht in den Menschen
• Das Hannah-Buch
• Eichmann und die "burschikose Ironie"
• Ein Atemholen des Denkens
• Die heilsame Bewegung des Zwerchfells
• Tun ohne Bild
• Übersetzen : der "einzigartige Umweg"
• Erste Fäden in die neue Öffentlichkeit
• Ein Fest der Kontamination
• Das Mädchen aus der Fremde
• Eine mehrfache Metamorphose
• "Was für ein Glück, dass du gekommen bist"
• Das Verzeihen verlernen : Über den verzweifelten Kampf einen Begriff von der Wirklichkeit zu erlangen
• Das Nachkriegsdilemma
• Die weisse Leinwand
• Kein Pardon
• Einmal Kommunist, nicht immer Kommunist
• Freiheit und Sinnesänderung
• Verlernen, eine Aufgabe
• Dramatisieren : die Welt als Bühne, der Text als Raum
• Neues zu sagen
• "Citar es citarse"
• Aus den Fugen
• Personare
• The Living Room
• Probehandeln
• Erweiterter Anhang
• Transatlantische Unterschiede
• Hannah Arendt, Kollektive Verantwortung
• Anmerkungen
• Literatur
• Dank
• Impressum.