Judging Forgiveness: Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, and The Winter’s Tale
Judging Forgiveness: Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, and The Winter’s Tale
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判断宽恕：汉娜·阿伦特、W·H·奥登和《冬天的故事》
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10.1353/nlh.2014.0041
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发表时间：
2015
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0.9
通讯作者：
J. Lupton
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作者：
J. Lupton
1959年末和1960年初，w·h·奥登和汉娜·阿伦特就宽恕这个话题进行了一次简短的交流；他们的对话，部分是对戏剧文学的回应，导致了一生的友谊，包括1970年阿伦特的丈夫海因里希·布莱切尔去世后，怀斯坦向汉娜求婚被拒绝。1959年，当奥登为《邂逅》杂志评论《人类状况》时，两人相识，奥登通过电话联系阿伦特，表达了他的钦佩之情。1971年，阿伦特把她的论文《思考与道德考量：演讲》献给了奥登，并在1973年奥登去世时为他写了一篇悼词。然而，阿伦特从来没有把奥登当作她最亲密的朋友之一，他们在宽恕的问题上意见不一。对奥登来说，宽恕（名词）是一种内在状态，它必然会被舞台上的表现所背叛，而“宽恕需要在行动中表现出来”。另一方面，对阿伦特来说，宽恕（动词）是一种行动，它总是涉及这个世界上许多人的言语和举止，它的行动特征使它成为政治和戏剧的资源。
In late 1959 and early 1960, W. H. Auden and Hannah Arendt had a brief exchange on the subject of forgiveness; their dialogue, conducted in part in response to dramatic literature, resulted in a life-long friendship, including a rebuffed marriage proposal from Wystan to Hannah after the death of Arendt’s husband Heinrich Blücher in 1970. The two met when Auden reviewed The Human Condition for the journal Encounter in 1959, and Auden contacted Arendt by telephone to communicate his admiration. In 1971, Arendt dedicated her essay, “Thinking and Moral Considerations: A Lecture” to Auden, and she wrote a eulogy for the poet when he died in 1973. Yet Arendt never claimed Auden as one of her most intimate friends, and they disagreed on the matter of forgiveness. For Auden, forgiveness (the noun) is an internal state that is necessarily betrayed by presentation on stage, where “forgiveness requires manifestation in action.” For Arendt, on the other hand, forgiving (the verb) is an action that always involves the speech and comportment of a plurality of persons in this world, its action-character rendering it a resource for both politics and drama.