Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger

Paulina Sosnowska

doi:10.5771/9781498582421

Summary

The tragedy of totalitarianism, one of the most important turns in the modern philosophy and history of the West undergirds the intellectual relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. The rise of totalitarianism caused the disruption of traditional metaphysical and political categories and the necessity of a painstaking forging of new languages for the description of reality.

This book argues that Arendt’s answer to Heidegger’s philosophy, intelligible only within the wider context of both thinkers’ struggles with the philosophical tradition of the West, also opens up a new horizon of conceptualizing the relationship between philosophy and education. Paulina Sosnowska develops Arendt's thesis of the broken thread of tradition and situates it in the wider context of Heideggerian philosophy and his entanglement with Nazism, and consequently, questions the traditional relationship between philosophy and education. The final parts of this book return to the problem of dialogue between philosophy, thinking, and university education in times when the political and ethical framework is no longer determined by the continuity of tradition, but the caesura of twentieth-century totalitarianism.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8241-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8242-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Heidegger: The Ontological Interpretation of Plato’s Cave No access
  2. Arendt: The Political Interpretation of Plato’s Cave No access
  3. Gateway: Paideia is not Bildung No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Humboldt: Idealism—Neohumanism—Liberalism No access
  2. Humboldt: The Idea of University No access
  3. Arendt: Bildung and Assimilation No access
  4. Concluding Remarks No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Contexts No access
  2. The Pedagogical Dimension of Being and Time No access
  3. Being and Time as Political Philosophy? No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Heidegger Estranged From His Own Thought No access
  2. Tradition Defeated: Heidegger Breaks with Plato and the Idea of University No access
  3. Arendt: Thinking Through the Break No access
  4. Concluding Remarks No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Heidegger’s Aristotle No access
  2. Arendt’s Aristotle No access
  3. Aristotle: Plato’s Most Genuine Disciple57 No access
  4. Notes No access
3. 1. Heidegger’s World Versus Descartes No access
  2. Arendt’s Doubled World No access
  3. Arendt’s Reluctant Modernism and the Question of Freedom No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. “What” and “Who”: the Difference between The Human Condition and Human Nature No access
  2. Herder and “The Educational Principle” No access
  3. Understanding the Power of Precedence: Arendt, Foucault, Agamben No access
  4. Concluding Remarks No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. The Scandal of Non-thinking No access
  2. What Is Called Thinking? No access
  3. University between Past and Future No access
  4. Notes No access
Afterword No access Pages 211 - 214
Bibliography No access Pages 215 - 224
Index No access Pages 225 - 232
About the Author No access Pages 233 - 234