![]() ![]() In 1933 Heidegger joined the Nazi Party, and was slow to distance himself from it even after the war – a position that would understandably strain his relationship with Arendt. Arendt’s later work is shaded by these rosy formative years. In 1924, while at the University of Marburg, she fell for the phenomenologist Professor Martin Heidegger, who she saw as the manifestation of an original love for philosophy. As a PhD student, her academic work touched on the theme of love in the writings of St Augustine. But the practical philosopher develops her work from a pressing need to act.īorn in Hanover in 1906 to secular Jewish parents, Arendt’s worldview was soon marred by war and ostracism. The moral philosophies of the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment looked to codify the right way to be. The theoretical philosophy of the Greeks had attempted to answer questions of knowledge, logic and metaphysics. Hannah Arendt was a practical philosopher. ![]()
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