Volume 29, Number 11 · June 24, 1982
Woman in Dark Times
By Alfred Kazin
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Yale University Press, 563 pp., $25.00
I met Hannah Arendt in 1946, at a dinner party given for Rabbi Leo Baeck by Elliot Cohen, the editor of Commentary. It was that long ago. She was a handsome, vivacious forty-year-old woman who was to charm me and others, by no means unerotically, because her interest in her new country, and for literature in English, became as much a part of her as her accent and her passion for discussing Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, even Duns Scotus, as if they all lived with her and her strenuous husband Heinrich Bluecher in the shabby rooming house on West 95th Street.
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