Hannah Arendt/Karl Jaspers Correspondence, 1926-1969

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First edition, first printing (full letter line). Quarto in beige and aqua photo illus jacket; xxv, 821 pages; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-800) and indexes. Very fine in very fine jacket in archival mylar sleeve in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151078874

An exquisite copy. "The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers begins in 1926, when the twenty-year-old Arendt studied philosophy with Jaspers in Heidelberg. It is interrupted by Arendt's emigration and Jasper's 'inner emigration' and resumes in the fall of 1945. From then until Jaspers's death in 1969, the initial teacher-student relationship develops into a close friendship. Three countries figure prominently in the correspondence: Germany, Israel, and the United States. Among the topics are Fascism, the atom bomb and the threat of global destruction, German guilt for the Holocaust, Jewishness, the State of Israel, American politics and American universities, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Arendt and Jaspers discuss people both famous and obscure. They gossip, joke complain, and argue. They commiserate with each other over the illnesses and infirmities of old age. And they converse about the world's great philosophers: Spinoza, Kant, Marx, Max Weber, Heidegger. Here is a fascinating dialogue between a woman and a man, a Jew and a German, a questioner and a visionary, both uncompromising in their examination of our troubled century." —Publisher. Political scientists -- Germany -- Correspondence. Philosophers -- Germany -- Correspondence. Politologues -- Allemagne -- Correspondance. Philosophes -- Allemagne -- Correspondance. Philosophers. Political scientists. ** A heavy book. An additional shipping charge may apply for priority or international orders. **