[MaFLA] Új könyv: Reading with Hannah Arendt. Literature, Criticism, Theory (Bloomsbury 2026)

[Andrea Timár]

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COVER:
Hannah Arendt is one of the major political thinkers of the last century, and recently, scholars have started to engage with her relevance for the humanities. To date, though, her work has not been theoretically explored with a particular focus on literary and cultural studies. This book fills this gap by examining the relevance of Arendt's writings for 21st-century literary studies. It asks questions like: What could an Arendtian approach to literature mean? Can we establish a dialogue between Arendt's engagements with literature and her political thought? Can a rereading of Arendt's writings and imagined conversations between Arendt and her 21st-century interpreters inspire new, Arendtian readings of literary texts?
Revisiting some of Arendt's own discussions of literature, this book explores her own engagements with the practice of storytelling to extend, complicate, and challenge some of the contemporary arguments on the significance of narratives. It also reads Arendt against Arendt, demonstrating her enduring relevance for 21st-century literary scholarship.

CONTENTS
Introduction
Arendt’s Critique of Compassion 1
Storytelling 5
Zoe and Bios 7
Speech and Nonspeech 9
Literature? 12
Conversation 13
1 Against Compassion: Posttraumatic Stories in Arendt, Benjamin, Melville, and Coleridge 23
Coleridge and Arendt 23
Sentimentality Versus Solidarity 29
Testimonies: How to Tell a Story? 33
2 Billy Budd’s Stutter: Arendt, Sedgwick, Cavarero 53
Billy Budd’s Stutter 55
Critiques of Violence 59
Inclination and In-betweenness 61
3 Art and Politics: Brecht, Arendt, Rancière, Hartman 69
Rancière’s Critique of Arendt 71
Compassion: John Adams and Bertold Brecht 73
The Ballad Form 74
Brecht, Arendt, Hartman 79
4 Arendt and Literary Pedagogy 89
Reading Arendt Reading: Heart of Darkness 95
The Literature Seminar 99
Taste and Opinion 102
Representative Thinking, Discussion, and Literary Pedagogy 104
5 The Monstrous Distortion of Taste: Arendt and Nathalie Sarraute 115
Rotten to the Core 115
The Social and the “Ugly Psyche”: Conversation and Sub-conversation 121
The Monstrous Distortion of Taste 125
Open Ending 128
6 Law and Justice in Dezső Kosztolanyi and Doris Lessing 141
Justice 146
Compassion and Representative Thinking 148
7 Mutual Recognition: Reading Arendt with Esposito 155
The Bacchae 156
Greece and Rome 160
Arendt and Esposito 163
Birth (Esposito) 170
Natality (Arendt) 171
New Alliances 173
8 Literary Vaccine: Reading Death in Venice with Arendt After COVID-19 191
Death in Venice 192
Vaccine 195
9 Concluding Remarks 203

Üdvözlettel:
Timár Andrea


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Timár, Andrea. Reading with Hannah Arendt. Literature, Criticism, Theory. (London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2026.)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-with-hannah-arendt-9781350560154/

First:
Timár, Andrea. A Modern Coleridge. Cultivation, Addiction, Habits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; paperback: 2017)
Nominated for the First Book Prize of the British Association for Romantic Studies
https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137531452#reviews

Andrea Timár (PhD. Habil.) egyetemi docens / Associate Professor
Director of Modern English and American Literature and Culture Doctoral Programme
English Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
https://des.elte.hu/en/timar?m=6471
https://elte.academia.edu/AndreaTimar


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