Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers correspondence, 1926-1969 / edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner ; translated from the German by Robert and Rita Kimber.

Author
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st U.S. ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1992.
Description
xxv, 821 p. ; 25 cm.

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Firestone Library - Stacks JC263 .A7413 1992 Browse related items Request
    Special Collections - Rare Books JC263 .A7413 1992 Milberg JAmW Browse related items Reading Room Request
      Special Collections - Rare Books RBD1 Box B-000186 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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        Library of Jacques Derrida box B-000186.
        Summary note
        "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 Jasper's 'inner emigration' and resumes in the fall of 1945. From then until Jaspers's death in 1969, the initial teacher-student relationship develops into a close friendship. Three countries figure prominently in the correspondence: Germany, Israel, and the United States. Among the topics are Fascism, the atom bomb and the threat of global destruction, German guilt for the Holocaust, Jewishness, the State of Israel, American politics and American universities, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Arendt and Jaspers discuss people both famous and obscure. They gossip, joke complain, and argue. They commiserate with each other over the illnesses and infirmities of old age. And they converse about the world's great philosophers: Spinoza, Kant, Marx, Max Weber, Heidegger. 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 troubled century."
        Notes
        • Spine title: Arendt/Jaspers correspondence, 1926-1969.
        • Derrida copy Lightly annotated. Includes manuscript material. Dealer note: Glissé dans le livre: NY Times Book Review, September 20, 1992, pages 1-4, 53-56. Aux pages 1, 53-54, il y a un compte rendu de l'ouvrage par Richard A. Shweder. Check-in observation: Dog-eared pages 17, 118, 363, 629.
        • Derrida copy Stored in box B-000186. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, Studio Series. Studio. Wall 4.
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-800) and indexes.
        Other title(s)
        Arendt/Jaspers correspondence, 1926-1969.
        In
        Derrida copy folder 15 4.1.4.13
        ISBN
        • 0151078874
        • 9780151078875
        LCCN
        91034000
        OCLC
        24429625
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