Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger : History of a Love
(2021)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Indiana University Press, 2021
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1 online resource (335 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9780253027184 MWT14802311, 0253027187 14802311
LANGUAGE
English
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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? In this remarkable biography, Antonia Grunenberg tells how the relationship between Arendt and Heidegger embraced both love and thought and made their passions inseparable, both philosophically and romantically. Grunenberg recounts how the history between Arendt and Heidegger is entwined with the history of the twentieth century with its breaks, catastrophes, and crises. Against the violent backdrop of the last century, she details their complicated and often fissured relationship as well as their intense commitments to thinking

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