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Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers Correspondence 1926-1969 Paperback – January 1, 1993

by Hannah Arendt (Author), Karl Japsers (Author), Lotte Kohler (Author),

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The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers begins in 1926, when the twenty-year-old Arendt studied philosophy with Jaspers in Heidelberg. It is interrupted by Arendt's emigration and Jaspers's "inner emigration, " and it is resumed immediately after World War II. The initial teacher-student relationship develops into a close friendship, in which Jasper's wife, Gertrud, is soon included and then Arendt's husband, Heinrich Blucher. These letters show not only the way both philosophers lived, thought, and worked but also how they experienced the postwar years. Since neither ever dreamed that this correspondence would be published, and each had absolute trust in the other, they reveal themselves here - for the first time - in a personal and spontaneous way. Brilliant, vulnerable, forthright, Arendt speaks about America, her adopted country. About American universities, American politics from McCarthyism to Kennedy, American urban decay. She speaks about Germany, the country she left: its anti-Semitism, its guilt for the Holocaust, its politics. And about Israel, which she always supported as a Jew but also criticized, especially in her controversial book about the trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. In his dialogue with Arendt, the thoughtful, generous, concerned Jaspers considers the question of the German essence, and of the Jewish character. He speaks about philosophers past and present - Spinoza, Heidegger. About old age and retirement. Corrupt journalism. Suicide. Man's future on this planet. Here is a fascinating dialogue between a woman and a man, a Jew and a German, a questioner and a visionary, both uncompromising in their examination of our troubledcentury.

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January 1, 1993
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6 x 2 x 9 inches
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0156225999
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978-0156225991
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Kenrick Hackett Jr.

A great teacher and a great student

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2014

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Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers (or Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt, as Arendt would prefer) are two of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century. These letters, however, though they touch on matters of deep relevance for both the 20th and 21st century, reveal their personalities in ways that the tomes they wrote never can. Both were incredibly sensitive and caring human beings, and both knew the difference between public image and private reality. Indeed, Arendt wrote about just this in a eulogy she wrote about Jaspers. With Jaspers, Arendt was the loving and respectful student of her revered teacher-- the man for whom she had written her dissertation on St. Augustine before the Nazis came to power. For his part, Jaspers regarded her as a beloved former student who had blossomed into an intellectual peer and had become like a daughter to him and to his wife. Throughout the book there are occasional letters between Jaspers and Heinrich Blucher, Arendt's husband, who though he never wrote much and stayed out of the limelight was intellectually and emotionally their peer in every way. A wonderful book. It is a shame that in all likelihood so few will choose to read it.

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David G.

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013

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The correspondence of two of the 20th century's greatest thinkers is fascinating. The autobiographical perspectives of each in their survival during and just following the war, their struggle to understand what happened and why -- and nothing compares to Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism -- leads to remarkable insights into Israel, England, Germany, France, USSR, the U.S., and so many persons. Their discussion of Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Churchill, Heidegger, Husserl, Weber, Camus, Sartre, and so many others, are filled with surprises. The fears of a new and worse conflagration in the early '50's originating with the USSR, China or the U.S. are palpable,

Not a fast read, as nothing is of or about Arendt or Jaspers, but a companion over the long haul. Highly recommended.

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Leah Osad

Nice considerations of when these people should sound off

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2006

I have found CORRESPONDENCE 1926 - 1969 of Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers to be enormously entertaining, easy to read, and surprisingly foreboding about problems in the book trade caused by foreign indebtedness. Politically, each date brings chilling summaries. For Hannah Arendt in America, on June 3, 1949, "At the moment, the general political atmosphere is dismal here, particularly at the universities and colleges (with the exception of the very eminent ones)." (pp. 136-137). This letter 90 has several notes on pages 714-715 which give details that are sure to be humorous now for anyone who has ever heard of Aspen, where the leaves all turn at the same time because the roots are interconnected, as perjury suspect Libby Scooter informed New York Times reporter Judy Miller in a letter urging her to end her days in prison and testify in 2005 so an investigation of White House activities relating to the identity of CIA WMD analyst Plame could be resolved quickly. According to this book, Hutchins, the president of Chicago University, was the nominal organizer of a two-week conference and Goethe celebration in July 1949 in Aspen, Colorado, attended by José Ortega y Gasset, Albert Schweitzer, Ernst Simon, Stephen Spender, and Thornton Wilder. Letter 90 was a response to articles that had been written by the "Bonn Romanticist Ernst Robert Curtius, 1886-1956," (p. 714) who would also be at the conference:

"The real power behind it is a German-American, a real-estate dealer, who recently bought up a ghost town and then had the commercially brilliant idea of tying Goethe into his business. His sole motive is to exploit Goethe to make this town world famous, so he can then make a bundle of money from tourists. The whole thing is really quite marvelous. The second backer, however, is a less amusing figure: Do you remember Bergstrasser from Heidelberg? After he had successfully accommodated himself to the regime, it was shown that he had a whole string of Jewish ancestors. He is the real moving force behind this program." (p. 136).

Curtius had published a polemic in Germany on April 2, 1949 which accused Jaspers of making "our collective guilt so plain to us that we can continue to live only with a guilty conscience. A Wilhelm von Humboldt of our time, he laid out guidelines for German universities, until he turned his back on them. ... He is crowning these national pedagogical efforts with a `campaign in Switzerland' that is directed against Goethe. Habemus Papam!" (pp. 714-715). In response to the comments of some Heidelberg professors, Curtius replied on May 17, 1949, and finally on July 2, 1949, with a title, "Goethe, Jaspers, Curtius." (p. 715). `Die Zeit' might be to blame for that title, which reeks of arrogance.

In any event, books in those days were considered significant enough that the move by Jaspers to Switzerland, as advised by Hannah Arendt on June 30, 1947, (when Jaspers was giving guest lectures in Basel), "we would do best not to settle down too permanently anywhere, not really to depend on any nation, for it can change overnight into a mob and a blind instrument of ruin" (p. 91), which made publication of books by Jaspers much easier, was resented by Germans who had already spent the money those books would earn. America was a great place for books by Jaspers to make money, and Hannah Arendt did her part to make sure that the translators selected by the publishers were able to express what Jaspers was saying in some form of English that readers could understand. Sounding like an American, Jaspers wrote on July 20, 1947:

"We are living in paradise here. My wife is already cutting back at table for fear of putting on weight." (p. 93)

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Andrew G. Rothschild

Heartwarming and Intellectually Engaging

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2001

Jaspers and Arendt cover everything and everyone: Sartre, Heidegger, Marx, Goethe, Camus; post-WWII Germany, "the infinitely complex red-tape existence of stateless persons," the Cold War, the "senile" Eisenhower administration, Eichmann, totalitarianism, the atom bomb, local democracy--it's all there. So too is a life-long, extremely close friendship between people who weathered a war from different sides of the globe, who faced cold war terror in radically different ways, who loved their spouses intensely but felt somehow separated by differences in world-view tracable to ethnicity(Gertrude was ethnically Jewish and Heinrich was ethnically Christian). Her admiration of him, her intellectual debt to him, her love for him; his seeming amazement at her vivacity, his admiration of her intellect, his cold, German form of love--and the walls cracking, and his sentiment sometimes pouring through.
It's a warm book up until the very last entry, Arendt's address at Jaspers' funeral. That's enough to send a shiver up your spine--but only if you read it in the context of everything else.

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