Hannah Arendt's Shared Destiny with Rahel Varnhagen.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Goldstein, Donald J.
- Source
- Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal; Spring2009, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p1-8, 8p
- Subject
- JEWISH philosophers
CHRISTIANITY
BIOGRAPHIES
- Language
- ISSN
- 12099392
The article explores the interplay in the life of Jewish philosopher and political commentator Hannah Arendt and Rahel Varnhagen, a German Jewish who converted to Christianity in 1814, in Arendt's biography of Varnhagen. It refers to the self-consciousness of Arendt as a Jew and her belief about the political stance of being a Jewish as the root of her approach to the life of Rahel. It is said that the biography of Varnhagen reflects the philosophical and political transformation of Arendt in Germany during the period preceding the Holocaust.