HEIDEGGER AND ARENDT: SIMPLE ROMANCE OR INTELLECTUAL COLLABORATION?

ABSTRACT: Philosophy, through its story, is fertile in the cases of amorous relations between philosophers. Iffor a long time, the couple Sartre-Beauvoir had been the more noticed, it remains that the relationshipHeidegger-Arendt is from now on highlighted because of the protean implications of this juvenile passion thathas become a senile obsession with dreamlike allures that can‟t be overcomed.What is immediately striking isthe blatant opposition between the master of Fribourg, anti-Semite and Nazi ideologue, and Arendt, youngJewish student, victim of Nazism. How then to catalogue this relationship: should we associate it to romancewithout any intellectual extension or should we perceive in it an ounce of intellectual collaboration? This articleaims to take this question by treating it in the right measure, in reverse of any pernicious extrapolation whichleads to unfortunate assimilations.

Keywords: Nazism, Totalitarianism, Anti-semitism, Politics, Philosophy