{"product_id":"hannah-arendt-karl-jaspers-correspondence-19261969-9780151078875","title":"Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence  1926-1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Arendts emigration and Jasperss \"inner emigration  \" and it is resumed immediately after World War II. The initial teacher-student relationship develops into a close friendship  in which Jaspers wife  Gertrud  is soon included and then Arendts 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. Mans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651946111029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0151078874","price":93.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780151078875.jpg?v=1781846835","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hannah-arendt-karl-jaspers-correspondence-19261969-9780151078875","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}