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Hannah Arendt on Action and Exile

Published/Copyright: December 18, 2007
Naharaim
From the journal Naharaim Volume 1 Issue 2

Abstract

I Politics and “exilic” experience

One remarkable aspect of this “Myth of Exile” is that it served two conflicting purposes: through its mystical interpretation of exile as action instead of suffering, it could rouse the people to hasten the coming of the Messiah [… ] But [… ] it served equally well the needs of the disillusioned people, who, having lost the Messianic hope, wanted a new, more general justification of exile, of their inactive existence and mere survival.

Published Online: 2007-12-18
Published in Print: 2007-12-01

© Walter de Gruyter 2007

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https://doi.org/10.1515/NAHA.2007.020

Articles in the same Issue

  1. In Memoriam Stéphane Mosès
  2. Editorial
  3. Weiße Stellen und schwarze Löcher: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Ostgalizien
  4. Epistemics of the Holocaust Considering the Question of “Why?” and of “How?”
  5. La mémoire, l'histore, l'oubli: A Symposium with Paul Ricœur. Part I: Prefatory Remarks
  6. Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Remembrance
  7. Concepts of Time and Space in Phenomenology
  8. “Aber wie soll ich denn aus dem Jiddischen übersetzen?”: Gershom Scholem and the Problem of Translating Yiddish
  9. Hannah Arendt on Action and Exile
  10. Zum Briefwechsel von Leo Löwenthal und Siegfried Kracauer
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