Announcement of Hannah Arendt Collection Preview on American Memory

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Hannah Arendt preview available on American Memory Web site

The Library of Congress' Manuscript Division, in conjunction with the
American Memory Historical Collections, presents an online preview of
its manuscript collection relating to the life and activities of the
author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975),
whose papers are a principal source for the study of modern intellectual
life. The preview includes selections from Arendt's writings, as well as
an essay on her intellectual history, a chronology of her life, and an
index of all folders in the Arendt Papers.

The papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book
manuscripts, transcripts of the Adolf Eichmann trial proceedings, notes,
and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic career.
Among these are correspondence with many of the leading literary and
political figures of the twentieth century, including W. H. Auden, Mary
McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Thomas Mann, Dwight Macdonald, Eric Voegelin,
and Norman Podhoretz.  The collection also contains various drafts of
Arendt's published work, in particular: The Origins of Totalitarianism
(1951), The Human Condition (1958), and the controversial and
groundbreaking Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).

The entire collection has been digitized and will be available in its
entirety to researchers in reading rooms at the Library of Congress, the
New School University in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt Center at
the University of Oldenburg, Germany, in the summer of 2001. Additional
materials from the collection will be made available for public access
on the Internet at that time.  

The digitization of the Hannah Arendt Papers is made possible through
the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Users can access this collection at the following url:
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/arendthome.html>

Please direct any questions to NDLPCOLL at LOC.GOV