Beyond Banality and Fatality

Arendt, Heidegger and Jaspers on Political Speech

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ID4071069
AuthorsApril N Flakne, April Flakne (corresponding author)
Year2002
Issue86
Pages3
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3115199
OpenAlexW2321379025
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Much has been made of Hannah Arendt's apparent of heart regarding her former teacher Martin Heidegger between 1946 and 1954. In What is Existential Philosophy,I published in 1946, Arendt sharply rejects Heidegger's thought. early 1950s, however, find her more cautious and respectful, both personally2 and professionally. with Politics in Recent European Philosophical Thought (1954)3 traces this shift. However, that essay also marks a less sensational change in Arendt's attitude toward the philosophy of her other important teacher, Karl Jaspers. More significantly than any biographical or psychological speculation, the substance of her measured praise and criticism of Jaspers and Heidegger provides clues into the origin and direction of her evolving views in the Human Condition and beyond. In this essay, I explore the genesis of Arendt's concept of political speech out of the interplay of Jaspers's notion of communication and Heidegger's concept of Rede. In The Concern with Politics in Contemporary European Philosophical Thought, Arendt explicitly articulates her own itinerary in relation

Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology

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