Containing complete English and Turkish texts, this book is a collection of papers originally presented at the International Philosophy Colloquium Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt: Metaphysic and Politics.
Although these two thinkers took different paths in philosophy and politics, they are brought together here, primarily because both aimed at the destruction of the Western metaphysical tradition. It is this common point of departure which makes an understanding of these thinkers of continuing importance today as we try to reinterpret the relationship between thinking and action - a reinterpretation which we invite our readers to continue.
About the Authors
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher, who developed existential phenomenology and has been widely regarded as the most original 20th-century philosopher. Heidegger was born in Messkirch, Baden, on September 22, 1889. He studied Roman Catholic theology and then philosophy at the University of Freiburg, where he was a student of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. Heidegger began teaching at Freiburg in 1915. After teaching (1923-28) at Marburg, he became a professor of philosophy at Freiburg in 1928. He died in Messkirch on May 26, 1976.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1875) political scientist, editor, and educator
Born on October 14, 1906, in Hannover, Germany, Hannah Arendt grew up there and in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Arendt attended the universities of Marburg, Freiburg, and Heidelberg (from which she received her Ph.D. in 1928). When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, she fled to Paris, where she was a social worker and in 1940 married Heinrich Bluecher, a philosophy professor. She again became a fugitive from the Nazis the following year. In 1941, Arendt fled to the United States.
In New York City she served as research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations (1944-46), chief editor of Schocken Books (1946-48), and executive director (1949-52) of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., which sought to salvage Jewish writings dispersed by the Nazis.
She became a United States citizen in 1951, later working as a professor and lecturer at schools like the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.
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