Visible Spaces

Dagmar Barnouw is a professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her books include Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity and Critical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

This book opens up new and interesting sources for the assessment of Hannah Arendt's writings. Elisabeth-Christine Mulsch, German Studies Review Barnouw demonstrates an impressive amount of familiarity with Arendt and the departure point of all her thinking; as a German Jew-and a woman, Barnouw constantly reminds us-Arendt would remain indebted to the German intellectual culture in which she was educated while witnessing the Holocaust at the same time. -- Kristina R. Sazaki Seminar An independent and critical study by a German intellectual. It is an important contribution to a new German-Jewish dialogue. -- Klaus L. Berghahn Telos