- ^ Königsberg was the East Prussian capital and after World War II became Kaliningrad, Russia.
- ^ Sozialistische Monatshefte was edited by the Königsberg Jewish scholar, Joseph Bloch, and formed the focal point of Martha Arendt's Königsberg socialist discussion group
- ^ The young Hannah confided that she wished to marry Hermann Vogelstein when she grew up.[20]
- ^ Varnhagen would later become the subject of a biography by Hannah.[37]
- ^ From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796)
- ^ Anne Mendelssohn described her as someone who had "read everything"[46]
- ^ Anne Mendelssohn: Descendant of Moses Mendelssohn and Felix Mendelssohn, an influential local family. Anne left Germany for Paris at the same time as Arendt, married the philosopher Eric Weil in 1934, and worked for the French Resistance under the alias Dubois. She died on 5 July 1984[50]
- ^ Like Arendt, Anne Mendelssohn would go on to become a philosopher, obtaining her doctorate at Hamburg,[46] while Ernst became a philologist.[51]
- ^ Martin Heidegger, a Roman Catholic, had married Elfride Petri on 21 March 1917. They had two sons, Jorg and Hermann[56]
- ^ Ettinger set out to write a biography of Arendt, but, being in poor health, never completed it, only this chapter being published as a separate work before she died[64]
- ^ The essay is preserved in the published correspondence between Arendt and Heidegger[72]
- ^ for instance "perhaps her youth will free itself from this spell"
- ^ Augustin and the Pauline freedom problem. A philosophical contribution to the genesis of the Christian-Western idea of freedom
- ^ "I won Hannah's heart at a ball, whilst dancing: I remarked that "love is the act in which one transforms an a posteriori, the other person one has encountered by coincidence – into the a priori of one's own life." – This pretty formula did admittedly not turn out to be true."[68]
- ^ Extramarital cohabitation was not unusual amongst Berlin intelligentsia, but would be considered scandalous in provincial university communities, necessitating their marriage before moving to Heidelberg and Frankfurt to pursue Günther's academic aspirations.[89]
- ^ Da es nun wahre Transzendenz in dieser geordneten Welt nicht gibt, gibt es auch nicht wahre Übersteigung, sondern nur Aufsteigen in andere Ränge
- ^ Echolosigkeit und das Wissen um die Vergeblichkeit ist die paradoxe, zweideutige und verzweifelte Situation, aus der allein die Duineser Elegien zu verstehen sind. Dieser bewußte Verzicht auf Gehörtwerden, diese Verzweiflung, nicht gehört werden zu können, schließlich der Wortzwang ohne Antwort ist der eigentliche Grund der Dunkelheit, Abruptheit und Überspanntheit des Stiles, in dem die Dichtung ihre eigenen Möglichkeiten und ihren Willen zur Form aufgibt.
- ^ Stern was advised that employment at a university was unlikely due to the rising power of the Nazis, adding: "Now it's the turn of the Nazis for a year or little more. After they fail, we'll give you the habilitation" ("Jetzt kommen erst einmal die Nazis dran für ein Jahr oder so. Wenn die dann abgewirtschaftet haben, werden wir Sie habilitieren").[104]
- ^ There are a number of theories as to his reason for adopting the pen name Anders, including Herbert Ihering's that there were too many writers called Stern, so he chose something "different" (anders); its sounding less Jewish,[68]; and not wanting to be seen as the son of his famous father.[107]
- ^ Pariavolk: In Religionssoziologie (The Sociology of Religion). While Arendt based her work on Weber, a number of earlier authors had also used this term, including Theodor Herzl[122]
- ^ "Original Assimilation" was first published in English in 2007, as part of the collection Jewish Writings.[135]
- ^ "Die jüdische Assimilation scheint heute in Deutschland ihren Bankrott anmelden zu müssen. Der allgemein gesellschaftliche und offiziell legitimierte Antisemitismus trifft in erster Linie das assimilierte Judentum, das sich nicht mehr durch Taufe und nicht mehr durch betonte Distanz zum Ostjudentum entlasten kann."[137]
- ^ The Rothschilds had headed the central Consistoire for a century but stood for everything Arendt did not, opposing immigration and any connection with German Jewry.[141][146]
- ^ Youth Aliyah, literally Youth Immigration, reflecting the fundamental Zionist tenet of "going up" to Jerusalem
- ^ Hannah Arendt's mother, Martha Arendt (born Cohn) had a sister Margarethe Fürst in Berlin, with whom the Arendts sought refuge for a while during World War I. Margarethe's son Ernst (Hannah Arendt's cousin) married Hannah's childhood friend Käthe Lewin, and they emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934. There, their first daughter was named Hannah after Arendt ("Big Hannah"). Their second daughter, Edna Fürst (b. 1943), later married Michael Brocke and accompanied her great aunt Hannah Arendt at the Eichmann trial[151]
- ^ Arendt/Heidegger: Arendt confided to Heidegger's wife Elfride in a letter dated 10 February 1950, that when she left Marburg she was absolutely resolved never to love a man again, "And then I got married, just to get married, to a man I didn't love". Arendt goes on to say that she felt absolutely superior to things, that she believed she could have everything at her disposal, precisely because she expected nothing for herself. Finally she said that everything changed only when she met the man who would become her second husband.[72]
- ^ Gurs to Montauban, about 300 km
- ^ The Huguenot mayor of Montauban had made welcoming political refugees an official policy[164]
- ^ In December 2018, a plaque to recognize Arendt's stay in Lisbon was unveiled at the corner of Rua da Sociedade Farmacêutica and Conde Redondo, including a quotation from "We Refugees" (see image)[165][166]
- ^ Arendt to Jaspers 29 January 1946
- ^ Arguing that anti-semitism in France was a continuum from Dreyfus to Pétain[173]
- ^ The Conference on Jewish Relations, established in 1933 by Salo Baron and Morris Raphael Cohen was renamed the Conference on Jewish Social Studies in 1955, and began publishing Jewish Social Studies in 1939[176][177]
- ^ The Commission, by then called Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR), was largely the work of Hannah Arendt and Salo Baron
- ^ JCR was wound up in 1977
- ^ Dark Times: A phrase she took from Brecht's poem An die Nachgeborenen ("To Those Born After", 1938),[220] the first line of which reads Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten! (Truly, I live in dark times!). To both Brecht and Arendt, "Dark Times" was not merely a descriptive term for perceived atrocities but an explanation of the loss of guiding principles of theory, knowledge and explanation[221]
- ^ Latin has three nouns for love: amor, dilectio and caritas. The corresponding verbs for the first two are amare and diligere[224]
- ^ Matthew 22:39
- ^ Arendt explained to Karl Jaspers, in a letter dated 6 August 1955, that she intended to use St Augustine's concept of amor mundi as the title, as a token of gratitude[236]
- ^ Fugitive writings: Dealing with subjects of passing interest
- ^ Arendt/Heidegger: Arendt willed that her correspondence be taken to the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach in 1976 and sealed for 5 years, and Heidegger's family stipulated that it remained sealed during Martin Heidegger's wife Elfride's lifetime (1893–1992). In 1976, Elzbieta Ettinger sought access and was granted this for a planned biography after Elfride's death. The subsequent scandal following Ettinger's disclosures, led to a decision to publish the correspondence in entirety[63][65]
- ^ Arendt to Jaspers, 2 December 1960
- ^ "Er wollte Wir sagen, und dies Mitmachen und dies Wir-Sagen-Wollen war ja ganz genug, um die allergrössten Verbrechen möglich zu machen."
- ^ Arendt to Jaspers, 23 December 1960
- ^ A position that the judges would later agree with[301]
- ^ Arendt to Jaspers, 23 December 1960
- ^ Jaspers to Arendt 14 October 1960[310]
- ^ Letter to McCarthy 16 September 1963
- ^ The title vita activa (active life) is taken from Arendt's position in The Human Condition (1958) that thinking is a form of action, and that the active life is as important as the contemplative (vita contemplativa)[294]
- ^ The Palazzo degli Uffici Finanziari was originally the Casa del Fascio and the square, the Piazza Arnaldo Mussolini, and was erected as the Fascist headquarters for the region. The bas-relief is by Hans Piffrader
- ^ Ladin, German and Italian: Degnu n'a l dërt de ulghè – Kein Mensch hat das Recht zu gehorchen – Nessuno ha il diritto di obbedire
- ^ "Civil Disobedience" originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker. Versions of the other essays originally appeared in The New York Review of Books
- ^ Letter to Jaspers 14 May 1951.[369] Her image appeared on the cover of the Saturday Review of Literature on Saturday, 24 March 1951 (see image), shortly after the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism. She also appeared on Time and Newsweek in the same week[370]
- ^ Arendt wrote to Stein "It is my honest opinion that you are one of the best portrait photographers of the present day"[385]
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