Hannah Arendt is well known. On the one hand, he was mainly as an important thinker and political theorist in the 20th century. On the other hand, it was proposed in The New Yorker in a philosophical manner when he tried Adolf Eichmann. The concept of "banality of evil". The biographical film "Hannah Arendt" is the main line of the latter, presenting the earth-shaking changes in Hannah Arendt's life. The other line describes the emotional journey of Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, which is also one of the themes of the movie. Heidegger’s status as the king of thought in Hannah Arendt’s mind, from when he met and fell in love in 1925 to 1933 after the Nazis came to power, he experienced drastic changes, suggesting that a 20th-century woman is constantly growing and looking for her own life. course. There is such a segment in the movie, where my friend Mary McCarthy asked Hannah Arendt if Heidegger was the favorite of her life. Arendt denied it. When asked about Heidegger's place in her mind, Arendt said this:
Some things are more important than people. What is "something"? The answer is: thinking. This is the most precious thing Heidegger brought to Arendt. This article will focus on this process from "person" to "thinking". Heidegger's line was introduced by the photo album on Arendt's desk. For the first time, the young Arendt received news in the study room that he was also a student of Heidegger, Hans, that his teacher Heidegger was appointed as the president of the University of Freiburg and joined the Nazis. This was when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and it was also a turning point in the lives of Heidegger and Arendt. This is the fourth and last appearance in the movie with Heidegger. The second time, when the words of Adolf Eichmann’s trial were repeated in Arendt’s mind, the memory came to 1925, and Arendt and Heidegger, who were full of joy and shy, had the first time in the office. Meeting, expressing my thoughts. Arendt was fascinated by Heidegger at this time. Her expression was the result of the interweaving of the desire for love and the fear of life. For Heidegger, who fell in love with Arendt at first sight, he became Arendt's lover, protector, and mentor to guide her forward. For the third time, when Arendt faced strong opposition from her close friend Hans and her husband's health was deteriorating, a cigarette brought her thoughts back to Heidegger's classroom in 1924. Heidegger had a huge influence on young Arendt's thinking. The article "Eichmann in Jerusalem" caused an uproar after the publication of "The New Yorker". There were even letters of intimidation and criticism every day. Arendt had to move to the country alone to live alone.
For the fourth time, back in 1955, Arendt, who had already achieved success with "The Origin of Totalitarianism" in the United States, returned to Germany, while Heidegger was in despair. In the conversation, Heidegger recalled their beautiful encounter and passionate love. Arendt questioned why Heidegger surrendered his dignity and succumbed to the Nazis. Even though he made useless excuses, claiming that "those are all slander," he finally compromised. Even after that, the relationship between the two gradually improved, which means that the status of Heidegger's king of thought has completely collapsed in Arendt's heart, and Arendt's king of thought is no longer Heidegger. Before inserting Heidegger’s line every time, Arendt was faced with a difficult situation. He was plunged into some kind of contemplation under different circumstances. It seemed that every time he was drawing strength from the memory of Heidegger, but in fact what he drew was not. It was the thinking ability she learned from Heidegger. The influence of Heidegger's thought on Arendt has been built into the world of Arendt's thought and has become a part of it. The process from "people" to "thinking" that Heidegger wants to express through the four appearances of the film was completed as early as Arendt wrote about "the banality of evil". The article was published in 1961, and Hannah met Heidegger again in 1950 after a lapse of decades. After 1950, the correspondence between the two became more and more frequent. Although the movie showed the collapse of Heidegger’s status, Arendt expressed more and more understanding of Heidegger after that, and even said The spark of love between the two reignited. Therefore, it can be said that it was not Heidegger who accompanied Arendt through that difficult period until the end of his defense in the university class, but "thinking". At the end of the film, Arendt spoke for himself in the university class, expressing his understanding of thinking, echoing the scene of Arendt immersed in Heidegger’s thinking world in Heidegger’s line, and also proved Arendt. Having completed the construction of her own "world of thought", the king of thought is no longer Heidegger, nor is it Hannah Arendt herself. Her king of thought is thinking itself. I think of Qian Mu’s "I love my teacher, I love the truth more", but it is not a good explanation for the relationship between Heidegger and Arendt. , Prompting Arendt to face the darkness alone, trying to build his own world of thought. To a certain extent, "Hannah Arendt" has a certain inspiration for the research of Heidegger and Hannah Arendt in the academic field. A deeper understanding of their relationship will help to better understand Han The construction of Na Arendt's thought system. This can’t help but remind people of existential lovers Sartre and Beauvoir. More in-depth research shows that Beauvoir is not as a vassal of Sartre’s philosophical thinking on the male side as people imagined in the past, but also subverted people’s attitude towards women. The perception of philosophers. As great women of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Beauvoir both showed how women’s social status has changed, especially at the ideological and academic level. Today, with the attention to the works of these great female writers, Interpretation continues to increase, and research fields such as Beauvoir Sartre and Arendt Heidegger will play a more important role. At the end of the movie, Arendt lay on the bed, smoking a cigarette, and continued to think, because the matter was far from over, he had to face the flood of accusations, slanders and threats from the Jews. Fortunately, Hannah Arendt is already a king of thought. , Prompting Arendt to face the darkness alone, trying to build his own world of thought. To a certain extent, "Hannah Arendt" has a certain inspiration for the research of Heidegger and Hannah Arendt in the academic field. A deeper understanding of their relationship will help to better understand Han The construction of Na Arendt's thought system. This can’t help but remind people of existential lovers Sartre and Beauvoir. More in-depth research shows that Beauvoir is not as a vassal of Sartre’s philosophical thinking on the male side as people imagined in the past, but also subverted people’s attitude towards women. The perception of philosophers. As great women of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Beauvoir both showed how women’s social status has changed, especially at the ideological and academic level. Today, with the attention to the works of these great female writers, Interpretation continues to increase, and research fields such as Beauvoir Sartre and Arendt Heidegger will play a more important role. At the end of the movie, Arendt lay on the bed, smoking a cigarette, and continued to think, because the matter was far from over, he had to face the flood of accusations, slanders and threats from the Jews. Fortunately, Hannah Arendt is already a king of thought.
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