The remarkable love letters of hannah arendt and martin heidegger. Hannah arendt, author, martin heidegger, author, ursula ludz, editor, trans. Richard wolin, new republic ettinger has constructed this strange, tormented, and in some ways tragic love affair in a slim, elegantly written volume. At the university of marburg, she studied philosophy with martin heidegger, with whom she also had a youthful affair. Hannah arendtmartin heidegger, briefe, 1925 bis 1975, ed. The love letters of hannah arendt and martin heidegger. Hannah arendt martin heidegger is important for the biographical light that it sheds upon the development of arendts thought. The encounter with heidegger, with whom she had a brief but intense loveaffair, had. Her father died when she was seven and she was raised by her mother, martha cohn arendt. Martin heidegger talks philosophy with a buddhist monk on german television 1963 josh jones is a writer and musician based in durham. Heidegger has often been seen as having no moral philosophy and a political philosophy that can only support fascism.
It is probably fair to say that, after that with hannah arendt, she had one of the most important extramarital affairs with heidegger as is known since 2005, heidegger led something of an open marriage and his wife elfriede both knew about his affairs and conducted her own. Martin heidegger, hannah arendt and the politics of remembrance. Jeffrey andrew barash 2002 international journal of philosophical studies 10 2. Jan 01, 2008 i the intellectual relations between heidegger and arendt the publication of the correspondence between martin heidegger and hannah arendt in germany in 1998 contributed new insight into the relations between these two 20th century thinkers. Arendt, hannah, heidegger, martin, ludz, ursula on. She was eighteen years old and his student at marburg. Standardni zivotopis je youngbruehl, elisabeth, hannah arendt, for love of the world, yale univ. Hannah arendt erinnerung an martin heidegger audio. The love letters of hannah arendt and martin heidegger open. Hannah arendt martin heidegger is important for the biographical light that it sheds upon the development of arendt s thought. Arendts grandparents were members of the reform jewish community there. After observing her for two months in class, he invited her to an office conference in which she spoke almost inaudibly, mumbling no more than yes or no in response to his questions.
In this remarkable biography, antonia grunenberg tells how the relationship between arendt and heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their passions inseparable. The great german writer and political theorist hannah arendt october 14, 1906december 4, 1975, the first woman to deliver the prestigious gifford lectures, possessed one of the most piercing intellects of the twentieth century a source of abiding insight into the crucial difference between truth and meaning and time, space, and where the thinking ego resides. It also served to pique arendts interest in the subjectivity of pauline christianity and a secular philosophy. A version of the article was published in twentieth century european cultural theorists, edited by paul hanson dlb, 2003. It is by now well known that hannah arendt had a love affair with martin heidegger. Martin heidegger, hannah arendt and the politics of. In 1924, philosopher martin heidegger met hannah arendt, a student in his philosophy class at the university of marburg. I the intellectual relations between heidegger and arendt the publication of the correspondence between martin heidegger and hannah arendt in germany in 1998 contributed new insight into the relations between these two 20th century thinkers. Hannah arendtmartin heidegger, briefe 1925 1975, frankfurt am main 1998. Henceforth cited as b 4 see in english, hannah arendt and karl jaspers. Her family were merchants of russian extraction from konigsberg, the east prussian capital. A philosopher as influential as he is controversial, heidegger made monumental contributions phenomenology and existentialism. Arendt, a germanjew who had a brief affair with heidegger while studying at marburg, was appalled by his support for the nazi regime as rector of freiburg university in the early 1930s.
Arendt was heideggers student in marburg in the mid1920s and the correspondence has confirmed the intimate character of their. The resulting affair is among the most famous in intellectual history. Access free hannah arendt karl jaspers briefwechsel 19261969 1924, after having completed her high school studies, she went to marburg university to study with martin heidegger. Martin heidegger is perhaps the twentieth centurys greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. Hannah arendt was born in hanover, germany in 1906. The encounter with heidegger, with whom she had a brief but intense loveaffair, had a lasting influence on her thought. The remarkable love letters of hannah arendt and martin. When she was a 19yearold university student, arendt fell in love with her 36yearold married professor, martin heidegger september 26, 1889may 26, 1976. Hannah arendt was born johanna cohn arendt in 1906 into a comfortable educated secular family of german jews in linden, prussia now a part of hanover, in wilhelmine germany. Born in 1892 as the first child of the public prosecutor dr. Arendt, a germanjew who had a brief affair with heidegger while studying at marburg, was appalled by his support for the nazi regime as. Vorlesungen 19191944 marburger vorlesungen 19231928 17. Elfriede heidegger and elisabeth blochmann were friends and former.
In 1924, after having completed her high school studies, she went to marburg university to study with martin heidegger. Hannah arendtkarl jaspers correspondence, 19261969 edited. Hannah arendt and the philosophical repression of politics. Elzbieta ettinger, hannah arendtmartin heidegger, yale university press, 1995. Yet until this translation first appeared in 1962, this fundamental work of one of the most influential european thinkers of the century remained inaccessible to english readers. Arendt was heidegger s student in marburg in the mid1920s and the correspondence has confirmed the intimate character of their relationship during this. Sonia sikkas book challenges this view, arguing instead that heidegger should be considered a qualified moral realist, and that his insights on cultural identity and crosscultural interaction are not invalidated by his support for nazism. Heidegger, martin, arendt, hannah, lowith, karl, wolin, richard, heidegger, martin, marcuse, herbert, jonas, hans martin heidegger is perhaps the twentieth centurys greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. Heidegger gesamtausgabe project gutenberg selfpublishing. How could hannah arendt, a german jew who fled germany in 1931, have reconciled with martin heidegger, whom she knew had joined and actively participated in the nazi party. Henceforth cited as b 4 see in english, hannah arendt and karl jaspers, correspondence 19261969, trans.
No romance could be stranger than the clandestine affair between the jewish antifascist hannah arendt and the nazi philosopher martin heidegger and yet it spanned more than forty years, from their first meeting as student and teacher in 1930s germany, till heideggers death in 1976 as a teacher at freiburg, when he first met the intense, 19 year old. While a freshman at marburg university, hannah arendt attended one of martin heideggers philosophy lectures in november 1924. Eine liebe in deutschland philippsuniversitat marburg. Martin heidegger an hannah arendt, brief 98 vom 29. The notorious fouryear affair between hannah arendt and martin heidegger has occasioned many a bitter academic debate, for reasons with which you may already be familiar. Arendts weimar or how to do philosophy and theology as a germanjewish woman philosophy and theologyfor me they belonged together. Arendts radical good and the banality of evil echoes of.