Perhaps the most exciting scene of this movie is the scene where Arendt’s close friend and philosopher Hans Jonas, who was also a student of Heidegger, broke off with her. "So far, I broke up with Heidegger's favorite student." Jonas left angrily, and the friendship in his youth broke up like this.
Undoubtedly, "Eichmann of Jerusalem" touched the bottom line of Jonas. He threw a sharp question to Arendt: Are you really a Jew? He believes that Arendt looked down on the Jews from the perspective of a senior German intellectual. In the deepest part of her heart, she could not accept that the "comrades of Germany" had betrayed her, and the mentor and lover of Aryan blood had betrayed her. Karl Löwith, who was also a student of Heidegger, admitted in a chapter in his biography: "I am also a German and I am also a Jew." Lovett pointed out the general mentality of Jewish German intellectuals at the time: Hitler came to power. Before, they had never been soberly aware of their own Jewish ancestry (although Arendt had learned Hebrew since childhood and maintained Jewish traditions, but his spiritual identity was also inclined to German culture)-until Hitler came to power, these spiritual The Germans had to be politically forced to recognize their Jewish identity. In the film, Heidegger often flashes in Arendt's painful memories, which can be said to be a character throughout.
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