Article: Seducing Hannah Arendt

Joseph Drew
Forward
08-25-1995
Seducing Hannah Arendt.

In her tribute "Martin Heidegger at Eighty" (1971), Hannah Arendt took pains to minimize and justify the philosopher's collaboration with the Nazis. As Elzbieta Ettinger notes in "Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger," to be published next month by Yale University Press, although Arendt insisted that Heidegger didn't read "Mein Kampf" and quickly corrected his "error" of supporting the Third Reich, "neither statement is borne out by available evidence."

Arendt's tribute, Ms. Ettinger writes, was "the last act in a drama that started almost half a century earlier," when the two embarked on "a passionate love affair." Her book, excerpted below, ...

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