Journal article
Not So Vain After All: Hannah Arendt’s Reception of Ecclesiastes
- Lasater, Phillip Michael University of Zurich, Kirchgasse 09, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland
Published in:
- Journal of the Bible and its Reception. - Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2019, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 163-196
English
Abstract Although Hannah Arendt only explicitly references the book of Ecclesiastes in order to contrast its views with her own, she and Qoheleth parallel each other on substantive issues. After showing how an influential translation of a key motif from Ecclesiastes led Arendt to misapprehend Qoheleth, this study unpacks their intellectual common ground on matters of affirming worldly life; the nature of action; and critical views of the human heart. Yet this third area which addresses human nature also highlights a divergence between them on how thinking relates to the problem of evil.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1515/jbr-2019-0002
- ISSN 2329-4434
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/144525
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