Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Arendt on Schelling

June 18, 1972, Arendt writes to Heidegger.  His husband, Heinrich Blücher has died, and in this year she is reading Merleau-Ponty (who died about a decade earlier) and still lecturing.  The next year she will give her Gifford Lectures on the Mind and the Will. She speaks of Heidegger on Schelling and quotes Stefan George.

In her letter she says that she kept Schelling out of her current lecture.
I have never been able to handle him by myself
She notes the need for an index to the published work. She is writing to the man who taught her to "read". It is rather more sad than pathetic.

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