Rahel Varnhagen: The Strangeness of Me

  • Marilyn LaFay
Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice book series (CPTRP)

Abstract

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess is a deceptively important work in the Arendtian universe. Rahel Varnhagen seems a rather insufferable twit, and hence one woman’s life. But this is what Arendt wants us to appreciate. In dedicating a book-length work to this woman, who left behind no legacy other than a collection of letters, Arendt demonstrates the modern confusion over what it means to be a subject.

Keywords

Public Sphere Political Freedom Body Politic Moral Autonomy Subjective Individual 
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