Subject Area: Writing-Diary/Memoir
Mori, Maryellen Toman2024 1-4955-1315-7 598 pages
In this introduction to the early world of Tamura Toshiko, my overview of the author’s life and my interpretive comments on many of her literary works give particular attention to the vital role of sensual pleasure in fostering a woman’s resilience. In Toshiko’s personal and literary microcosms, pleasure is invested with protective and healing properties.
Price: $319.95
Gluck, Andrew L.
2026 1-4955-1363-7 164 pages
Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt were a strange pair indeed! Jaspers, the cool psychiatrist/philosopher and Arendt, the hot-headed polemicist who preferred to call herself a political theorist despite her extensive philosophical training. Jaspers was practically monolingual though he could read English with a dictionary. Arendt was fluent in many languages. Both valued original thought and they were somewhat contemptuous towards the imitative. What seemed to unite them, aside from emotional factors, was their concern for humankind, their sheer intellectual prowess and curiosity, and their willingness to dialogue.
The correspondence between the two goes far beyond the question regarding Nazi war criminals. Though my thesis centers upon the concepts of banality of evil and metaphysical guilt, it also involves the Jewish question and Zionism, something that may invoke a great deal of controversy nowadays. This was necessitated by the Jewish reaction to Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and by her response to it. The book also deals with my own country, the U.S.A. and some unfortunate recent events.
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Aronson, Alex
1991 0-88946-385-9 135 pages
Studies the diary as a metaphor of the continuous flow of time in a person's life, evoking the writer's often capricious and fragmentary recall of the past, and his daily attempt to transform memory into images that are appended as if they existed outside or beyond time. Contends that diaries supply the evidence that there is a need to engrave phrases and dates to "protect them from oblivion."
Price: $139.95