Karl Jaspers

Once again this book owed its origins to her unwritten work about Marxism. She dedicated it to Gertrud and Karl Jaspersin Reverence—in Friendship—in Love. The almost simultaneous deadlines for this and Eichmann...

HA 's journalistic and editorial work meant that she met almost everyone who belonged to the intellectual scene in New York, as well as those just passing through, like T. S. Eliot . Those who...

HA defended her University of Heidelberg dissertation under Karl Jaspers ' supervision. It was entitled St Augustine's Concept of Love.

Karl Jaspers in his report on the dissertation wrote: Can unfortunately not be given the highest grade.

Arendt proposed herself to the New Yorker as a reporter on this trial as soon as she heard in summer 1960 that Eichmann had been kidnapped in Argentina by Israeli agents. She then re-arranged her...

Here she sets out to examine the theory of labor, philosophically considered, as distinguished from work. She defines the human sphere of activity as thevita activa or actively engaged life, a sphere that presupposes...

HA 's introduction to the two volumes of Hermann Broch that she edited for a collection published at Zurich in 1955, later re-appeared in English in Men in Dark Times. She edited two volumes...

HA 's papers are mostly held by the Library of Congress , with thought books which gathered material for published works, and some correspondence, at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv at Marburg in Germany.

Dark times is a phrase from Brecht . It is almost synonymous here with the twentieth century, though HA has a piece on Lessing , who lived two centuries earlier. She uses men to signify...

Her most memorable travel was the time she spent in Jerusalem for the Eichmann trial in spring and summer 1961. She followed this disturbing time by travelling with her husband to visit Karl Jaspers in...