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Hannah Arendt Life Is a Narrative This page intentionally left blank Hannah Arendt Life Is a Narrative JULIA KRISTEVA Translated by Frank Collins UNIVERSITY OF TRONIO PRESS Toronto Buffalo Londom www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2001 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-3521-3 Printed on acid-free paper The Alexander Lectures Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Kristeva, Julia, 1941- Hannah Arendt: life is a narrative (The Alexander lectures, ISSN 0065-616X) ISBN 0-8020-3521-3 1. Arendt, Hannah - Philosophy. 2. Political science - Philosophy. I. Collins, Frank. II. Title. III. Series: Alexander lectures. JC251.A74K742000 191 COO-932412-7 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). CONTENTS PREFACE vii ONE Life Is a Story 1 TWO Arendt and Aristotle: An Apologia for Narration 11 THREE Narrating the Twentieth Century 31 FOUR 'Who'and the Body 53 FIVE Judgment 73 This page intentionally left blank PREFACE First of all I would like to thank Professor Nesselroth, who invited me to the Centre for Comparative Literature and gave me the chance to get to know and to appreciate the high quality of University of Toronto students and faculty. My gratitude goes very specifically to Professor Paul Perron of University College, who took the initiative to invite me to give these prestigious Alexander Lectures, and to Professor Frank Collins, who translated them. In these lectures, I deal with some philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work - her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. I do not comment extensively on her already well known and very seriously discussed political writings such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusa- lem, or Crises of the Republic. But I have them permanently in mind, and I would invite you to have them in mind, too, while listening to my argument. I hope that my more philosophical than political considerations will help - indirectly - to clarify some Arendtian contradictions as well as some misapprehensions of her positions. This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER ONE Life Is a Story
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