1) The document describes a book about the relationship between philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, including their secret affair while she was his student, their diverging views after Hitler came to power with Heidegger joining the Nazi party while Arendt fled as a Jew, and their eventual reconciliation and correspondence.
2) The book explores how Heidegger's work and involvement with the Nazis influenced Arendt's thinking and major works, despite accusations of anti-Semitism against him.
3) Written by Daniel Maier-Katkin, a professor of criminology, the book provides insight into Arendt and Heidegger's exceptional minds and the debates around their
1) The document describes a book about the relationship between philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, including their secret affair while she was his student, their diverging views after Hitler came to power with Heidegger joining the Nazi party while Arendt fled as a Jew, and their eventual reconciliation and correspondence.
2) The book explores how Heidegger's work and involvement with the Nazis influenced Arendt's thinking and major works, despite accusations of anti-Semitism against him.
3) Written by Daniel Maier-Katkin, a professor of criminology, the book provides insight into Arendt and Heidegger's exceptional minds and the debates around their
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a new painting by John A Walker depicting two German philosophers in love
1) The document describes a book about the relationship between philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, including their secret affair while she was his student, their diverging views after Hitler came to power with Heidegger joining the Nazi party while Arendt fled as a Jew, and their eventual reconciliation and correspondence.
2) The book explores how Heidegger's work and involvement with the Nazis influenced Arendt's thinking and major works, despite accusations of anti-Semitism against him.
3) Written by Daniel Maier-Katkin, a professor of criminology, the book provides insight into Arendt and Heidegger's exceptional minds and the debates around their
1) The document describes a book about the relationship between philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, including their secret affair while she was his student, their diverging views after Hitler came to power with Heidegger joining the Nazi party while Arendt fled as a Jew, and their eventual reconciliation and correspondence.
2) The book explores how Heidegger's work and involvement with the Nazis influenced Arendt's thinking and major works, despite accusations of anti-Semitism against him.
3) Written by Daniel Maier-Katkin, a professor of criminology, the book provides insight into Arendt and Heidegger's exceptional minds and the debates around their
John A Walker ‘Two German Philosophers in Love’ (2010) Oil on linen.
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STRANGER FROM ABROAD
Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin An illicit romance fomented by shared intellectual passions, an enduring friendship based on mutual admiration, a tumultuous correspondence that see-sawed between playfulness and estrangement, and, above all, divergent life paths and ideas about some of the most important political, philosophical, and moral questions of the twentieth century: all of these describe, yet none of them quite define, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s extraordinary relationship. STRANGER FROM ABROAD: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness (W. W. Norton & Company; March 22, 2010; $26.95 cloth) explores the lives of two of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, the profound influence of their work, and the puzzle of their reconstructed friendship despite all that transpired between Germans and Jews in the Third Reich. Arendt was an eighteen-year-old college student at the University of Marburg in 1924 when she caught the eye of Heidegger, already a rising star in German philosophy. Because Heidegger was not just Arendt’s professor—they met when she attended his lectures on Plato’s Sophist—but also married and seventeen years her senior, they kept their relationship a secret, meeting surreptitiously and corresponding heatedly. As their brief affair ended, Arendt moved to Heidelburg to study under Heidegger’s closest friend, Karl Jaspers. By the time Hitler came to power, their lives had diverged sharply: Heidegger joined the Nazi Party and, as Rektor of the Freiburg University, brought an intellectual legitimacy to Hitler’s regime, while the Jewish Arendt, married to another man, fled Germany and was forced into exile, first in France and later in the United States. Heidegger would soon be cast out by the Nazis and subsequently relegated to disgrace by the victorious Allies, while Arendt’s star rose—he was forced to resign his position and was put under surveillance for the rest of the war, while she befriended a vibrant circle of thinkers and writers in New York and became a writer, editor, and scholar of renown. They did not write to each other for over two decades, but even in this time, Heidegger’s influence on Arendt’s work, as Maier-Katkin reveals, was significant. From her dissertation, Love and Saint Augustine, written at Heidelburg, through 1951’s The Origins of Totalitarianism and beyond, he shows that Arendt was nearly always thinking with, or against, Heidegger, even as she was repelled by his politics and by the accusations of anti-Semitism that followed him from the time he joined the Nazi Party until, and after, his death. Heidegger refuted vehemently, in personal correspondence with Arendt and others, and publicly, charges of anti-Semitism and deep Nazi sympathies. Yet even as he denied his culpability in Hitler’s rise to power and the violence that followed, he never apologized or asked for forgiveness, even from Arendt. Maier-Katkin’s investigation of Heidegger’s involvement with the Nazis is brilliantly nuanced and sensitive; it shows how Heidegger’s betrayal, and Arendt’s eventual forgiveness, helped shape Arendt’s most important work. Their reconciliation in 1950, after seventeen years without an exchange, was sudden and unexpected, and marked the beginning of a new stage in the relationship: a vibrant correspondence and a warm, even loving friendship. It was this friendship that— although there were long periods of silence on both sides—would influence Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition and 1963’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which she reported on Eichmann’s 1961 trial for crimes against humanity in Israel, and sought to figure out how so many apparently “average” Germans, like Eichmann, could participate in the murder of millions. Maier-Katkin views this seminal, work and the notorious reaction to it— including allegations that Arendt was a self-hating, anti-Semitic Jew—through the prism of her relationship with Heidegger. The debates provoked by Arendt’s advocacy of peace politics in Israel and the Middle East, and the controversies surrounding Heidegger’s Nazism and the friendship between the two of them are still very much alive nearly four decades after their deaths. STRANGER FROM ABROAD illuminates these questions anew, and provides an incisive, fascinating analysis of a pair of exceptional minds and the influential ideas that they produced. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Daniel Maier-Katkin is a professor of criminology and criminal justice and a Fellow of the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
TITLE: STRANGER FROM ABROAD: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger,
Friendship and Forgiveness AUTHOR: Daniel Maier-Katkin PUBLICATION DATE: March 22, 2010 PRICE: $26.95 cloth ISBN: 978-0-393-06833-7