Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975.

From: The Nation | Date: March 27, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Edited and with an introduction by Carol Brightman. Harcourt. 412 pp. $34.95.

On January 22, 1976, shortly after Hannah Arendt's death in her New York City apartment the previous December, Mary McCarthy wrote an obituary for her friend and mentor of over thirty years. Titled "Saying Good-bye to Hannah," this piece was remarkable in its invocation of Arendt's physical, or to use the old Latin word, "corporeal," presence. Beginning with a short summary of Arendt's last work, The Life of the Mind, which she posthumously edited and saw to publication, McCarthy went on to remark:

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