Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger - History of a Love

Against the violent backdrop of the last century, she details their complicated and often fissured relationship as well as their intense commitments to thinking.

List of contents

Foreword by Peg Birmingham
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the English Translation
Introduction
1. World Out of Joint, or How the Revolution in Philosophy Began
2. Life's Transformation, or the Sudden Eruption of Love into Life
3. The Failure of the German-Jewish Symbiosis, or Friends Becoming Enemies
4. Heidegger absconditus, or the Discovery of America
5. The Break in Tradition and a New Beginning, or Arendt and Heidegger in Counterpoint
6. Amor mundi, or Thinking the World after the Catastrophe
Chronology
Index

About the author

Antonia Grunenberg is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (IUP), editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics, and editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Citizenship in an Era of Human Rights. She is editor of Philosophy Today.
Elizabeth von Witzke Birmingham lives and works in Berlin. She is translator (with Peg Birmingham) of Dominique Janicaud's Powers of the Rational: Science, Technology, and the Future of Thought (IUP).
Kristina Lebedeva is a doctoral student of Philosophy at DePaul University.

Product details

• Authors: Antonia Grunenberg, Antonia/ Birmingham Grunenberg, GRUNENBERG ANTONIA
• Assisted by: Translated by Peg Birmingham Kristina Le (Editor), Peg Birmingham (Translation), Kristina Lebedeva (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780253025234
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02523-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Studies in Continental Thought; Studies in Continental Thought
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography / Autobiography