Hannah Arendt. Cartas del Recuerdo Para Los Amigos

Hannah Arendt's correspondence with her friends reflects the complexity of the bond between people who try to assume their share of responsibility in the shaping of history. In this essay, Olga Amarís analyzes the letters that Arendt sent to her friends to delve into the most intimate worlds of the political scientist. Through her correspondence with Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Walter Benjamino Rahel Varnhagen, we discover her from different prisms: as a lover, as a friend, as a confessor, as a disciple... to verify to what extent her philosophical and political work are inseparable from life. who conceived them. Emphasizing a gesture of consensual voyeurism, the reader becomes a witness to the fragile framework created by human beings in times of darkness who, with their words and actions, contributed to the reflection of a renewed way of inhabiting the world. The epistolary correspondence chosen here demonstrates that each of the letters, separately, constitutes an authentic attempt to understand the reality of her time.