Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy to Hannah Arendt, August 10, 1954; Hannah Arendt to Mary McCarthy, August 20, 1954
Letters
By: Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
Date: August 10 and August 20, 1954
Source: McCarthy, Mary, and Hannah Arendt. Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975. New York: Harcourt: 1996, 18–27.
About the Authors: Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) was an essayist, critic, novelist, and short story writer who developed her literary reputation writing book reviews for The New Republic, The Nation, and Partisan Review. In addition to her autobiographical novel Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), McCarthy wrote on a wide range of topics from art history to politics.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), a Jewish German-American philosopher and political theorist, was one of the most important intellectual...
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1950's The Arts Primary Sources
The 1950's: Primary Sources
