LL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jewish Philosophy, Martin Heidegger, Totalitarianism
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Jewish philosophy student at the university of marburg. Later they will be lovers; she will leave once he openly expresses to be in favour of the new. She graduated with a thesis on st. augustine"s concept of love, published in 1929. She was forced to leave germany after hitler"s anti-semitic policies excluded her from academia. She rst moved to france and then to the u. s. a. The origins of totalitarianism, between past and future, on human condition, eichmann in jerusalem, men in dark times, on violence. Series of articles rst published in the the new yorker and later edited in a book. She approached the editors of the ny presenting the idea of having a correspondent of their own at the eichmann trial in jerusalem. Open-minded and outspoken, her articles created a lot of discussion and controversy on many fronts. She later compiled all articles in a single volume. Even years after its publication, opinions were still very much divided.
