Thinking without a Banister
James Miller, 19 October 1995
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger
by Elzbieta Ettinger.
Yale, 139 pp., £10.95, October 1995,0 300 06407 1 Show More
by Elzbieta Ettinger.
Yale, 139 pp., £10.95, October 1995,
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Uncollected and Unpublished Works
by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn.
Harcourt Brace, 458 pp., $39.95, May 1994,0 15 172817 8 Show More
by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn.
Harcourt Brace, 458 pp., $39.95, May 1994,
Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought
by Margaret Canovan.
Cambridge, 298 pp., £12.95, September 1995,0 521 47773 5 Show More
by Margaret Canovan.
Cambridge, 298 pp., £12.95, September 1995,
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
edited by Carol Brightman.
Secker, 412 pp., £25, July 1995,0 436 20251 4 Show More
edited by Carol Brightman.
Secker, 412 pp., £25, July 1995,
Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969
edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner, translated by Robert and Rita Kimber.
Harcourt Brace, 821 pp., $49.95, November 1992,0 15 107887 4 Show More
edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner, translated by Robert and Rita Kimber.
Harcourt Brace, 821 pp., $49.95, November 1992,
“... the ‘blink of an eye’ – that instant of conversion and spiritual rebirth when (as St Paul had promised) ‘we shall all be changed.’ But then, in 1933, Heidegger, along with a majority of Arendt’s compatriots, was transfixed by an Augenblick of diabolical consequence. Hitler’s rise to power convinced Heidegger that a rare opportunity was at ... ”