Hannah Arendt—Complete Works. Critical Edition, vol. 17: Essays on Literature, Art, Philosophy and Politics
This critical edition is the first publication to present all of Hannah Arendt’s published and unpublished works in a philologically reliable scholarly edition with critical commentary.
Hannah Arendt composed distinct English and German versions of nearly all of her books and many of her essays. This critical edition makes the fundamentally plural dimension of her works visible and accessible as never before.
The critical edition has been conceived as a technologically innovative hybrid, appearing in both print and digital forms, which is particularly appropriate to Arendt’s plural corpus. Taken together, the print books and the web portal, each with its own strengths, enhance the potential of both media.
General editors
Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte (Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen (Director, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Hahn (Literary studies, Vanderbilt University / Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff (Film and Media studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Patchen Markell (Political Theory, Cornell University, New York)
PD Dr. Annette Vowinckel (History, Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Wild (Literary studies, Bard College, New York)
Publications
Already published volumes of the edition:
- Hannah Arendt: Sechs Essays. Die verborgene Tradition
Complete Works. Critical Edition. Print and Digital, vol. 3
Edited by Barbara Hahn with the collaboration of Barbara Breysach and Christian Pischel
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2019, ISBN: 978-3-8353-3278-2, 503 p. - Hannah Arendt: The modern challenge to tradition. Fragmente eines Buchs
Complete Works. Critical Edition. Print and Digital, vol. 6
Edited by Barbara Hahn and James McFarland with the collaboration of Ingo Kieslich and Ingeborg Nordmann
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2018, 978-3-8353-3192-1, 924 p.
Events
Hannah Arendt – Kritische Gesamtausgabe
Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Rostlaube, Seminarzentrum, Raum L 115
Media Response
Review by Jana V. Schmidt, in: LARB | Los Angeles Review of Books, 20 Apr 2020
Contributions
27 Mar 2018 Video
Hannah Arendt und der Ursprung totalitärer Herrschaft
A talk with Philipp Felsch and Eva Geulen
Video of the event at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
© Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
30 Jul 2018 Video
Eva Geulen über Hannah Arendt über Walter Benjamin
Eva Geulen recommends for the Second Reading the portrait of Walter Benjamin written by Hannah Arendt. The text was published in 1968 in the journal Merkur in three parts and takes a unique perspective on the figure of Benjamin. A conversation with the Merkur editors Ekkehard Knörer and Christian Demand. [in German]
© MERKUR