ETH230H1 Lecture Notes - Martin Heidegger, World Zionist Organization, Friends House
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July 23, 2020, nyt article the great climate migration has begun. 1% of world is inhospitable by 2070, could easily be 19% What migrants/refugees take w/ them, what they don"t, what is lost. Photographs of loved ones, religious objects, phone numbers, some clothes. Ideas also travel cultural, linguistic, religious. Migrants told to assimilate, few if any legal protections. Hannah arendt born in hanover, germany in 1906. 1922-23 studied classics & theology in university of berlin. 1924 studied w/ phenomenologist martin heidegger. Became a lover, then a nazi (!!) Born into german-jewish family fled in 1933. Before clandestine work for zionist organization, documenting anti semitisim. Family friend"s house on german-czech border front door (germany), left out of back door (czechoslovakia) refugee. From this point at age 27 until 1951 (naturalized as us citizen) stateless. With help from us diplomat gained a bunch of visas, a passport, including us emergency visa. ^ context in which she published we refugees in 1943.
