Arendt & Heidegger: An Intellectual Love Affair

Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger met in 1924, when the eighteen-year-old Arendt attended the philosophy lectures of the ‘intense’ and ‘charismatic’ Heidegger. Around this time, ‘interested young students flowed in from around the country’, and Arendt, following a rumour that — with Heidegger — one could learn to truly think, arrived at the University of Marburg ‘with a group of like-minded friends’. They…