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“The only woman whose correspondence with Arendt is published in a standalone volume is Mary McCarthy.”
“Love, she wrote, is different from friendship.”
“He also hosts the podcast Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz .”
“The exception to this rule is McCarthy, whose published letters with Arendt are rich in intellectual inquiry.”
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“But Arendt had other close women friends, including Hilde Fränkel, Anne Weil, Charlotte Beradt, Rose Feitelson, and Lotte Kohler.”
“With women like Hilde Fränkel and Anne Mendelsohn Weil, Arendt’s friendships reached for a more private and intimate insistence on caring support.”
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“To the extent she spoke about love, as in The Human Condition , it was to exclude love from the public world.”
“Their correspondence often reads like a philosophy seminar conducted in a living room.”
“In her speech “On Humanity in Dark Times,” Arendt distinguished two kinds of friendships.”
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“His books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition .”
“There are, of course, flashes of intimacy in her letters with Blücher and Jaspers.”
“______________________________ Excerpted from A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World by Roger Berkowitz.”
“Even in the letters with McCarthy—an important exception for its public engagement—we see a side of Arendt absent in her public writings: that friendship’s power is not only political but also deeply intimate.”
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“Arendt cultivated with women a quieter mode of connection—one less bound to the public world and more rooted in emotional resonance, bodily vitality, and care.”