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Article: Arendt, Heidegger, Jaspers: thinking through the breach in tradition.(Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers )(Critical essay)
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- Social Research
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- December 22, 2007
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FOR MUCH OF THE 1920S AND THE EARLY 1930s, HANNAH ARENDT, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers shared a common world of thought and experience. In particular,
* they shared a sense of the thoroughgoing crisis within modernity;
* they radically questioned the subject-centered inversion of the relationship of world and human being since Descartes;
* they viewed modern society, mass democracy, and liberalism as part of a breach in tradition in modernity;
* they shared an antipathy toward neo-Kantianism and all other transcendental philosophy, as well as an attendant awareness of the irretrievable loss of all metaphysical ...