My favorite definition of love
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Rainer Maria Rilke:
May 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My favorite definition of love
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Hannah Arendt with her mother Martha Sara Cohn
May 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hannah Arendt with her mother Martha Sara Cohn
"We've grown very poor in threshold experiences."
— Walter Benjamin
— Walter Benjamin
April 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"We've grown very poor in threshold experiences."
— Walter Benjamin
— Walter Benjamin
Arrived separately together
Looking forward to reading!
Looking forward to reading!
April 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Arrived separately together
Looking forward to reading!
Looking forward to reading!
Read Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil with me!
Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet
A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life.
samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t
Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet
A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life.
samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t
April 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Read Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil with me!
Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet
A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life.
samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t
Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet
A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life.
samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t
Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.
April 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.
Just say nein.
Avoid opera houses.
Don't listen to jazz.
Have a good weekend.
Avoid opera houses.
Don't listen to jazz.
Have a good weekend.
April 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Just say nein.
Avoid opera houses.
Don't listen to jazz.
Have a good weekend.
Avoid opera houses.
Don't listen to jazz.
Have a good weekend.
"Laughter helps one to find a place in the world, but ironically, which is to say, without selling one’s soul to it."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
April 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Laughter helps one to find a place in the world, but ironically, which is to say, without selling one’s soul to it."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
In case anyone questions the importance of the audience: It's not just that news became entertainment. It's also that people stopped knowing what they were applauding. It's the moment when every performance began receiving a standing O. When people began clapping for themselves.
April 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
In case anyone questions the importance of the audience: It's not just that news became entertainment. It's also that people stopped knowing what they were applauding. It's the moment when every performance began receiving a standing O. When people began clapping for themselves.
"I am not tired, or much tired, just exhausted."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
April 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"I am not tired, or much tired, just exhausted."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
In the fall of 1940 when Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt parted ways in Marseilles he entrusted her with a suitcase of his writings. Among the papers was a copy of Theses on the Philosophy of History
Join me for a class on Benjamin's life and last work
roundtable.org/live-courses/h
Join me for a class on Benjamin's life and last work
roundtable.org/live-courses/h
April 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In the fall of 1940 when Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt parted ways in Marseilles he entrusted her with a suitcase of his writings. Among the papers was a copy of Theses on the Philosophy of History
Join me for a class on Benjamin's life and last work
roundtable.org/live-courses/h
Join me for a class on Benjamin's life and last work
roundtable.org/live-courses/h
Closed the last night of 23 days of touring by reading poems with Paul Holdengräber and talking about what writers become when they die
April 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Closed the last night of 23 days of touring by reading poems with Paul Holdengräber and talking about what writers become when they die
Spending some time with Hölderlin
April 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Spending some time with Hölderlin
Hannah Arendt’s library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France from 1939.
April 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hannah Arendt’s library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France from 1939.
The view from Hölderlin’s window
April 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The view from Hölderlin’s window
"Faced with the prospect of German invasion Walter Benjamin renewed his library card."
— Barbara Johnson
Walter Benjamin's library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France from 1940
— Barbara Johnson
Walter Benjamin's library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France from 1940
April 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"Faced with the prospect of German invasion Walter Benjamin renewed his library card."
— Barbara Johnson
Walter Benjamin's library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France from 1940
— Barbara Johnson
Walter Benjamin's library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France from 1940
There is a German word, Gleichschaltung, that everyone should know. Because right now universities and institutions are being asked for conform to Trump's agenda in exchange for funding.
Here is one passage from Hannah Arendt's "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship":
Here is one passage from Hannah Arendt's "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship":
April 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is a German word, Gleichschaltung, that everyone should know. Because right now universities and institutions are being asked for conform to Trump's agenda in exchange for funding.
Here is one passage from Hannah Arendt's "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship":
Here is one passage from Hannah Arendt's "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship":
Looking forward to spending the next three weeks on the road talking about translation, poems, Hannah Arendt, and the art of listening!
Come say hi!
Come say hi!
March 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Looking forward to spending the next three weeks on the road talking about translation, poems, Hannah Arendt, and the art of listening!
Come say hi!
Come say hi!
Mary McCarthy: Where do you stand on capitalism?
Hannah Arendt: I do not share Marx’s great enthusiasm about capitalism.
Hannah Arendt: I do not share Marx’s great enthusiasm about capitalism.
February 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Mary McCarthy: Where do you stand on capitalism?
Hannah Arendt: I do not share Marx’s great enthusiasm about capitalism.
Hannah Arendt: I do not share Marx’s great enthusiasm about capitalism.
Spending my weekend with Heather Clark's brilliant new novel!
February 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Spending my weekend with Heather Clark's brilliant new novel!
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism