‘Two German Philosophers in love’, (2010), Oil on linen.110 x 90 cm.  2010

by john albert walker

The two philosophers in question were Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Arendt was Heidegger’s pupil in the 1920s when he taught at Marburg University (Marburg is in the background). They had a secret, passionate affair even though Heidegger was a Catholic and a married man with children. He later joined the Nazi party and his existentialist philosophy, it has been argue...
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