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Regions of Sorrow - Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W. H. Auden (Hardcover)
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Regions of Sorrow - Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W. H. Auden (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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W. H. Auden and Hannah Arendt belonged to a generation that
experienced the catastrophic events of the mid-twentieth century,
and they both sought to respond to the enormity of the novel
phenomena they witnessed. "Regions of Sorrow" explores the
remarkable affinity between their works. As incisive exponents and
uncompromising proponents of the insuperable condition of
plurality, Auden and Arendt give voice to an unexpected and
inconspicuous messianism--a messianism in which contingency,
frailty, and faultiness are neither rejected nor scorned but
celebrated as the indispensable elements of what Auden calls
"anxious hope."
Beginning with an examination of Arendt's "Origins of
Totalitarianism" and Auden's "Age of Anxiety," which both conclude
with meditations on Nazi terror, the author turns to an
unprecedented presentation of Arendt's "Human Condition" in terms
of Jewish-German messianism, and concludes with Auden's "In Praise
of Limestone," which lays out the frail and faulty space in which
messianism breaks free from apocalyptic forecasts.
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