Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno’s correspondence on the legacy of Walter Benjamin – in the Los Angeles Review of Books, edited and translated by Susan H. Gillespie and Samantha Rose Hill
THE 1967 CORRESPONDENCE between Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno followed Walter Benjamin’s death by nearly 30 years. The acrimony that grew between Arendt and Adorno during the intervening decades is present in these letters. Who had the right, ethically and intellectually, to edit and publish Benjamin’s work?
Samantha Rose Hill’s bio on the LARB site says she is writing a biography of Arendt.
Update: there is a fascinating piece on Benjamin’s last work and the feud between Arendt and Adorno over its editing by Samantha Rose Hill here.
