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Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen and the Beginnings of Arendtian Political Philosophy

Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen and the Beginnings of Arendtian Political Philosophy TheJo ••••at o[Jewish Thoughl and Phi/oJophy, Vol. 8, pp. 81-118 © 1998 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by license only Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen and the Beginnings of Arendtian Political Philosophy Carolina Armenteros Introduction Beginnings are formative. In a writer's life work - and especially in the case of a philosopher - the early scholarly efforts are the ones that define and shape later ones, the ones that fix and tame still-nebulous ideas about the world and give them the palpable quasi-reality of the word; the ones that unite disparate ideas and make their ensemble unique. The early works give birth to a writer's art and science: they delimit those aspects of reality that will conserve interest and fire the fancy later in life, and provide the method with which to look upon and engage that reality. To be sure, a writer may later transgress the bounds of her first works, and rebel against her own prescriptions; but such transgression and rebellion is usually reactive, and done in the spirit of one who willfully breaks previously binding laws. Beginnings can be re,. nounced by conviction and distorted through disuse, but rarely forgotten: echoes of one's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Brill

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Brill
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1053-699X
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1477-285X
DOI
10.1163/147728599794761680
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TheJo ••••at o[Jewish Thoughl and Phi/oJophy, Vol. 8, pp. 81-118 © 1998 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by license only Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen and the Beginnings of Arendtian Political Philosophy Carolina Armenteros Introduction Beginnings are formative. In a writer's life work - and especially in the case of a philosopher - the early scholarly efforts are the ones that define and shape later ones, the ones that fix and tame still-nebulous ideas about the world and give them the palpable quasi-reality of the word; the ones that unite disparate ideas and make their ensemble unique. The early works give birth to a writer's art and science: they delimit those aspects of reality that will conserve interest and fire the fancy later in life, and provide the method with which to look upon and engage that reality. To be sure, a writer may later transgress the bounds of her first works, and rebel against her own prescriptions; but such transgression and rebellion is usually reactive, and done in the spirit of one who willfully breaks previously binding laws. Beginnings can be re,. nounced by conviction and distorted through disuse, but rarely forgotten: echoes of one's

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The Journal of Jewish Thought and PhilosophyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1999

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