Mittelweg 36 1/2008

The first-ever publication in Mittelweg 36 of correspondence between theology student Hans-Jürgen Benedict and Hannah Arendt, dating back to 1967-68, represents something of a sensation. In it, the young student’s passionate empathy and burning convictions meet the objective yet vehement argumentation of the philosopher. The correspondence offers a precise insight into Arendt’s evaluation of the student movement, which, according to Wolfgang Kraushaar’s commentary, was “multivalent”. Arendt appeared to be “torn between the progressive impulses and the off-putting tendencies of the ‘68 rebellion”, he writes.

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