Richard Cohen: Unlikely Couple's Story of Love in the Ruins
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Around 1924, the professor seduced his student. He was 35 and married, she was 18 and single. He was an important philosopher and she was a precocious kid, destined for great things herself. He was to become a Nazi and she was a Jew - Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. If you could understand them both, as a couple and individually, you would understand the world and all its mysteries. You might also never sleep again.
The Heidegger-Arendt affair is a much-told tale that never loses its attraction for writers. Yet another book has appeared, "Stranger from Abroad" by Daniel Maier-Katkin, which was reviewed, along with a separate book on Heidegger, on the front of last Sunday's New York Times Book Review - a place of honor befitting these two intellectual giants, not to mention their very strange, and in terms of affection, enduring affair. After World War II, Arendt defended Heidegger and resumed the friendship.See the full content of this document
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Richard Cohen: Unlikely Couple's Story of Love in the Ruins
The affair is easy enough to understand. She was a fetching young woman and he was a robust man of great intellectual achievement, a celebrity of sorts before that entailed dancing or self-a...
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