1950's The Arts | 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...