“The Story is Not Separate”. Hannah Arendt and her Biography/Biographies Cover Image

„Historia nie jest osobna”. Hannah Arendt i jej biografia/e
“The Story is Not Separate”. Hannah Arendt and her Biography/Biographies

Author(s): Daria Nowicka
Subject(s): German Literature, Source Material, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Hannah Arendt; biography; history; literature; modi memorandi; text of culture;

Summary/Abstract: This article – as mentioned in the introduction – details three ways to understand the category of biography in Hannah Arendt’s writings. In the first, I mention the very act of writing a biography by the author – a story of Rahel Varnhagen or Walter Benjamin, also referring to the biographical and epistolographic essays that Arendt pointed out. In the second, I’m interested in the aspect of refugee biography proposed by Arendt in “We Refugees” which she used to redefine the term “refugee”. In the third aspect, I present Arendt as the protagonist of a biography in Julia Kristeva’s writings.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 133-150
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish