Traces the life of the Polish exile who became an important influence on the development of European socialism and explains why she became politically active

Rosa Luxemburg: A Life

Ettinger, Elżbieta

George G.Harrap & Co.,Ltd

Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger

This book is the first to tell in detail the story of the passionate and secret love affair between two of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Drawing on their previously unknown correspondence, Elzbieta Ettinger describes a relationship that lasted for more than half a century, a relationship that sheds startling light on both individuals, challenging our image of Heidegger as an austere and abstract thinker and of Arendt as a consummately independent and self-assured personality. Arendt and Heidegger met in 1924 at the University of Marburg, when Arendt, an eighteen-year-old German Jew, became a student of Heidegger, a thirty-five-year-old married man. They were lovers for about four years; separated for almost twenty years, during which time Heidegger became a Nazi and Arendt emigrated to the United States and involved herself with issues of political theory and philosophy; resumed their relationship in 1950 and in spite of its complexities remained close friends until Arendt's death in 1975. Ettinger provides engrossing details of this strange and tormented relationship. She shows how Heidegger used Arendt but also influenced her thought, how Arendt struggled to forgive Heidegger for his prominent involvement with the Nazis, and how Heidegger's love for Arendt and fascination with Nazism can be linked to his romantic predisposition. A dramatic love story and a revealing look at the emotional lives of two intellectual giants, the book will fascinate anyone interested in the complexities of the human psyche.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Yale University Press

A biography of Rosa Luxemburg praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Susan Sontag.

Rosa Luxemburg: A life

Leaders & Notable People

Beacon Press

Beacon Pr

A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout:\nA stark and powerful dissection of the courageous/contemptible game of "adjustment" by human beings under extreme stress - in this case, a Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Poland. Elli Rostow had cut down her grandfather's body after his suicide; had known other family self-slaughters; had seen grieving women and children sent to be exterminated; had been propelled into death's humiliations and horrors. Elli's mother - now known by the Polish name of Maria - is her introduction to the survival tactic of becoming "Polish." (Watch the inflection, study the Catholic prayerbook, make up heavily to hide the ghetto pallor.) Those who fail are wiped out, and in a succession of locations, jobs, Elli learns the ropes. But she suffers unbearable memories, just manages to hold off a breakdown such as her cousin Lili's who gave way under the pressure of life without warmth, honesty and love. To the end Elli dares not confide even in the man who loves her, a Polish underground fighter, whose work, evolved from guilt, seems mockingly irrelevant to Elli's own agonizing charade. But in the bestiality of persecution and massacre, the victims also lose their humanity. (In the Warsaw ghetto an oppressor's corpse is shredded and packed into candy boxes.) War, Elli's grandfather had said, "kills the conscience in man." And conscience, love, is dispensable in the kindergarten maneuvers of historical brutality. A chilling suggestion that death, too, has its games.

Kindergarten

G.K. Hall

Few novels manage to capture the anguish of the individual struggle for survival as this does. In KINDERGARTEN Elzbieta Ettinger under- stands the complexity of human reaction to surviving Naziism as a Jew, as she tells the story of Elli Rostow, a young Polish Jew born into a comfortable, bourgeois family who becomes a relentless fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and in the Polish underground as she struggles to keep herself and Emmi, a young girl found in the ghetto alive. Thisis also an adventure story, filled with intrigue, deception and murder as Elli is forced to lead a double life. She goes secretly in and out of the ghetto in order to help other Jews as she and her lover Adam fight with the resistance. She lives on forged papers to conceal her Jewish identity from her German employer in particular and has no choice other than to remain silent while ajl around her Jews are exposed and taken to their deaths. Elli becomes brave and tough as a result of her experiences. Her very survival is a testament to human perserverence and adaptability when threatened with annihilation.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Rivers Oram Press

Rosa Luxemburg. Ein Leben.

Dietz, Bonn

Hannah Arendt y Martin Heidegger (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Literature

Tusquets Editores S.A.

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