Over at phil.aule-browser.com I have placed an exerpt from Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition side-by-side with an exerpt from Martin Heidegger's "Die Frage nach der Technik" which I find in the GA edition of Vortraege u. Aufsaetze.
This opposition is unsatisfactory is so very many respects: first, the lack of context. Secondly, the lack of immediate links to the contexts of the exerpts, not to mention translations. And why this selection? The parallel citations of Heisenberg are far more striking - suggesting to me that, although the volume is listed as in Arendt's personal library at the time of her death, she may have relied on the Heidegger citations.
Repeatedly, at critical junctures in essays by Arendt, I find turns of phrase which strike me immediately as both regrettable and Heideggerian. Time and again her polemical tone is his - the same chord, if you will.
That he cites no one for his great insights in his quote has a frightful parallel in Arendt (compare Jaspers earliest letters to her as a student.)
Two related posts elsewhere are
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
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An even more serious challenge is Arendt's debt to Heidegger on Augustine - both for criticism, exposition, interpretation and web presentation using e-text.
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