Heureux celui qui n'a pas de patrie

by Hannah Arendt, François Mathieu (Translator)

Un événement éditorial, à l'occasion du 40e anniversaire de la mort de Arendt. La poésie a toujours été au centre de la vie et de la pensée de Hannah Arendt, qui n'a jamais cessé d'en écrire. Karin Biro, enseignante à Sciences Po, a rassemblé, édité et présenté, à partir notamment des archives Arendt, la totalité de ces poèmes, dont une partie sont totalement inédits. On y croisera bien entendu la philosophe, mais aussi la femme amoureuse, notamment de Heidegger.

Genres: Poetry

238 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).

Reviews

[Philippe Malzieu · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did not know that Arendt writed poems all along his life. These of this book are from 1921 to 1961, some of them never edited. It was her "violon d'Ingres". A passion for amateur. The irony comes from the title in french "Happy who have no homeland". But Arendt always wrote them in German, her mother tongue. As if these poems was the only thing which connected her with Germany.
Quality? It is not genius, but it is good. The book is in german with the french translation. It is easy to find an eventual mistake. But here no problem.We see the influence of the German romanticism, Holderlin but also Rilke. But these poems give us an other image of Arendt, in her intimacy. There is love, exile, anger, nature. We meet Heidegger, Benjamin, Broch,...
It is a mouving book

[Eloo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Je l'ai dévoré. Si puissant, si Hannah !
La traduction est très soignée et aide à révéler la beauté des vers et leur musique !
Le livre est parfait pour compléter ses journaux de pensée !