Description

• Title:
  Between Meeting and Passing: Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler
• Creator:
  Koper, Beata
• Description:
  The article is an attempt at capturing the relationship between the lives and creative attitudes of Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt and Judith Butler. Starting with Varnhagen’s biography written by Arendt, the essay’s author wonders about the philosopher’s writing strategy. Instead of a classic reconstruction of life, the biographer offers a collage of excerpts from Rahel’s letters with extensive commentary. This form encourages one to read Rahel Varnhagen as a narration about the author and her own struggle with Jewish and female identity. The second relationship analysed in the essay is the impact of Hannah Arendt’s texts on Judith Butler’s writings. Despite the criticism of the philosopher’s writings, Arendt remains an unquestionable inspiration to Butler. The article also emphasises the differencebetween the theoreticians: Arendt uses the strategy of mimicry (writing about identity in the form of a German Jew’s biography), while Butler writes a politically-engaged text, exposing herself and her identity.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2020.09.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Poznań Polish Studies. Literary Series; No. 37 (2020): Hannah Arendt: myślicielka i wiek XX; 151-162;
  Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka; Nr 37 (2020): Hannah Arendt: myślicielka i wiek XX; 151-162;
  2450-4947;
  1233-8680
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/24874/22887
• Subject:
  identity;
  biography;
  Rahel Varnhagen;
  Hannah Arendt;
  Judith Butler
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/24874
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text