Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

by Daniel Maier-Katkin

Hardcover, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

320.5092

Collection

Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (2010), Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing, 384 pages

Description

Shaking up the content and method by which generations of students had studied Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger sought to ennoble Man's existence in relation to Death. Yet in a time of crisis, he sought personal advancement, becoming the most prominent German intellectual to join the Nazis. Hannah Arendt, his brilliant, beautiful student and young Jewish lover, sought to enable a decent society of human beings in relation to one other. She was courageous in the time of crisis. Years later, she was even able to forgive Heidegger and to find in his behavior an insight into Nazism that would influence her reflections on "the banality of evil"--a concept that remains bitterly controversial and profoundly influential to this day. This book dramatizes some of the greatest questions of the twentieth century--revealing bonds connecting the personal, philosophical, and political, highlighting the responsibility of intellectuals in dark times.--From publisher description.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member michaelbartley
This book examtions the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, is exploring that relationship we explore forgivness and what is evil. A great read, love this book!
LibraryThing member ZelmerWilson
I found this book informative. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about Hanna Arendt

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

384 p.; 5.9 inches

ISBN

0393068331 / 9780393068337

Barcode

91100000176745

DDC/MDS

320.5092
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