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Papers of Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress Prepared by Frank Burke, Carolyn H. Sung, Allan Teichroew, and David Mathisen Revised and expanded by Michael Spangler with the assistance of Alys Glaze and Kathryn Sukites Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2001 Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2001 Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001004 Latest revision: 2004-08-27 Collection Summary Title: Papers of Hannah Arendt Span Dates: 1898-1977 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1948-1977) ID No.: MSS11056 Creator: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Extent: 25,000 items; 95 containers plus 1 oversize; 38 linear feet Language: Collection material in English, French, and German Repository: Manuscript Division,, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Abstract: Author, educator, and political philosopher. Correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, subject files, transcripts of trial proceedings, notes, and printed matter pertaining to the writings and academic career of Hannah Arendt. Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. Names: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Correspondence Ayalti, Hanan J., 1910- --Correspondence Bellow, Saul--Correspondence Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Correspondence Colie, Rosalie Littell--Correspondence. Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc. Fest, Joachim C., 1926- --Correspondence Friedrich, Carl J. (Carl Joachim), 1901- --Correspondence Gilbert, Robert, 1899- --Correspondence Gilbert, Elke--Correspondence Gray, J. Glenn (Jesse Glenn), 1913-1977--Correspondence Gurian, Waldemar, 1902-1954--Correspondence Hochhuth, Rolf--Correspondence Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965--Correspondence Jonas, Hans, 1903- --Correspondence Jovanovich, William--Correspondence Kazin, Alfred, 1915- --Correspondence Köhler, Lotte--Correspondence Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977--Correspondence McCarthy, Mary, 1912- --Correspondence MacDonald, Dwight--Correspondence Magnes, Judah Leon, 1877-1948--Correspondence Morgenthau, Hans Joachim, 1904- --Correspondence Riesman, David, 1909- --Correspondence Rosenau, Ruth H.--Correspondence Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, 1897- --Correspondence Shawn, William--Correspondence Silvers, Robert B.--Correspondence Spender, Stephen, 1909- --Correspondence Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965--Correspondence Voegelin, Eric, 1901- --Correspondence Vollrath, Ernst--Correspondence Weil, Anne--Correspondence Wolff, Helen, 1906-1988--Correspondence Papers of Hannah Arendt 2 Wolff, Kurt, 1887-1963--Correspondence University of Chicago--Faculty--Correspondence Arendt, Hannah. Between past and future; six exercises in political thought (1961) Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem; a report on the banality of evil (1963) Arendt, Hannah. Men in dark times (1968) Arendt, Hannah. Life of the mind (1978) Blücher, Heinrich, 1899-1970. Papers of Heinrich Blücher Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews--Persecutions National socialism Philosophy Political science--Philosophy Totalitarianism War crime trials--Jerusalem Zionism Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945 Palestine--Politics and government--1948- Occupations: Authors Educators Philosophers Administrative Information Provenance: The papers of Hannah Arendt, author, educator, and political philosopher, were received by the Library of Congress in various installments from 1965 to 2000 as a gift and bequest from Arendt. Small additions were made by Klaus Loewald in 1981 and Roger Errera in 1994. Processing History: The papers of Hannah Arendt were initially organized and described in 1965 and 1967. A large group of the material received in 1977 was incorporated into the collection in 1980. Items received in 1982 were processed as Addition I. Material received between 1985 and 1997 was organized as Addition II in 1998, and material comprising Addition III was received and organized in 2000. The entire collection was reprocessed and the register was revised in 2000. Transfers: Photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as a part of these papers. Copyright Status: Copyright in the unpublished writings of Hannah Arendt in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public, with the exception of any work which at the time of her death was under contract with a publisher. Electronic Format: A digital version of the Hannah Arendt Papers is available in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, in the Raymond Fogelman Library at the New School University in New York, N.Y., and in the Hannah Arendt Research Center at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany. Selected items from the the digital version can be accessed through the Library of Congress Web site at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/. Papers of Hannah Arendt 3 Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Hannah Arendt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Biographical Note Date Event 1906, Oct. 14 Born, Hannover, Germany 1928 Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany 1929 Published Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (Berlin: Springer Verlag. 90 pp.) Married Günther Stern (divorced 1937) 1933 Moved to Paris, France 1935-1939 Secretary general, Youth Aliyah, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Paris, France 1938-1939 Special agent for rescue of Jewish children from Austria and Czechoslovakia 1940 Married Heinrich Blücher (died 1970) Interned in concentration camp, Gurs, France 1941 Emigrated with her husband to the United States 1941-1945 Journalist 1944-1946 Research director, Conference on Jewish Relations 1946-1948 Chief editor, Schocken Books 1949-1952 Executive director, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction 1951 Published The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace. 477 pp.) Became a United States citizen 1952 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1953 Delivered Christian Gauss lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1954 National Institute of Arts and Letters grant 1955 Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 1956 Delivered Walgreen Foundation lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1957 Published Rahel Varnhagen, the Life of a Jewess (London: Published for the Leo Baeck Institute by the East and West Library. 222 pp.); translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston 1958 Published The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 332 pp.) Papers of Hannah Arendt 4 1959 Visiting professor, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1960 Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1961 Visiting professor of humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Published Between Past and Future (New York: Viking Press. 246 pp.) 1961-1962 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 1963 Published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press. 275 pp.) Published On Revolution (New York: Viking Press. 343 pp.) 1963-1975 Professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 1967 Received Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung 1967-1975 University professor of philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. 1968 Published Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 272 pp.) 1969 Awarded Emerson-Thoreau Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1969-1975 Associate Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1970 Published On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. 106 pp.) 1972 Published Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 240 pp.) 1972-1975 Member, Advisory Council of the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1973-1974 Delivered Gifford lectures, University of Aberdeen, n Aberdeen, Scotland 1975 Awarded Sonning Prize in Denmark 1975, Dec. 4 Died, New York, N.Y. 1978 Posthumous publication of The Jew as Pariah, edited with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman (New York: Grove Press. 288 pp.) Posthumous publication of The Life of the Mind (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 2 vols.) 1982 Posthumous publication of Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, edited with an interpretive essay by Ronald Beiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 174 pp.) 1994 Posthumous publication of Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954, edited by Jerome Kohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 458 pp.) Papers of Hannah Arendt 5 1996 Posthumous publication of Love and Saint Augustine, edited and with an interpretive essay by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 233 pp.) Publication of Hannah Arendt/Heinrich Blücher: Briefe 1936-1968, edited and with an introduction by Lotte Kohler (Munich: Piper. 596 pp.); translated into English by Peter Constantine and published in 2000 as Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968 (N.Y.: Harcourt. 459 pp.) Scope and Content Note The papers of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) span the period 1898-1977, with the bulk of the material beginning in 1948, three years prior
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