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Author: amparo enriquez (Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:11 am)
Title: Philosophy Arendt
In 1924 Hannah Arendt was only 18 years old and a new student at the university of Marburgo. She took subjects such as philosophy, theology and Greek. Hanna was lucky enough to study under three of the most important German philosophers of the times (twentieth century) Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers and also theology with Rudolf Bultmann.
Marburgo was small city which was encapsulated and protected under the republic of Weimar (1919-1933). At that time high unemployment, very high inflation and the failure by the democratic parliament to find a solution to the economic plight brought the threat of civil war. Unfortunately the chaotic situation helped Hitler to into power.
Hannah met Heidegger when she was 18 and he 35. They latter became lovers, and according to Heidegger she became the muse of his famous opus, the book “Being and Time”.
Years after the Heidegger affair Hannah discovered Raquel Varnhagen an interesting Jewish woman from a prominent German family with whom Hannah identified. She latter wrote her biography becoming perhaps one of her best books. Hannah also studied Charles Chaplin, whom she thought was a pariah, in her attempt to understand the Jewish culture.
Among the experiences in Hannah’s life ; she became a prisoner of the Gestapo and upon her release went to Prague to get away from the nazis. Hannah latter on moved to Paris where she worked with the Rotschild family managing donations to the Jewish community. She went then to Lisbon from where she traveled to New York.
Recently we celebrated the 100 anniversary of Hannah Arendt birth. She was a remarkable philosopher and one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century whose work will survive through the times.