User talk:Eliot Stearns

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Love your name!

Are you interested in Hannah Arendt? I would like to develop the article on her in the autumn and am looking for help, guidance, co-operation. I saw your contribution on Wiener Libraray but don't know of your interests.

My reading of Arendt suggests that her work was centrally based upon the relationship with Heidegger, the issues raised for her about philosophy by his memebership of the Nazi Party and his Rectorship. This led to her emphasis on the 'vita activa,' her rejection of Plato and her emphasis on 'people' rather than the individual, which I see as a particularly gendered and Jewish and important contribution. That summary excludes her extensive knowledge of and reference to, Greek philosophy, where I have no competence (and I haven't mentioned Kant, either, though there I feel more comfortable) and the centrality of holocaust/shoah (which term is now used?) which, inter-connecting with Heidegger, was at the centre of her life and work, demonstrated most obviously by her reporting of the trial of Eichmann.

Do let me have any comment on my page. Thanks. Jeffrey Newman 07:32, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Werner Heyde
Hello Eliot and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you very much for you great contribution to Werner Heyde. Aloha. --AI 19:13, 3 August 2005 (UTC)