Konnichiwa from Japan! Hannah Arendt wrote this comment on Jünger in a report she made of her first stay in Germany after the war, from August 1949 to March 1950. This report was written as part of a mission within a delegation directed by a Jewish American organization (the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction) concerned about the protection and safeguard of the Jewish treasures of religious worship in Europe. You will find it in: Hannah Arendt - Besuch in Deutschland, ed. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 1993, p.47. There is certainly an English edition of that book(?) Ernst Jünger never met with Hannah Arendt, and he just heard about her through Heidegger. I do not know if she ever wrote any other comments on Jünger. May be in Eichmann in Jerusalem (Eichmann in Jerusalen: a report on the banality of Evil. New York, Viking Press, 1963 and 1965)? Since I do not have a copy of this last book I can't check. As for the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers (Hannah Arendt-Karl Jaspers Correspondence, 1926-1969, ed. Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner; trans. Robert ad Rita Zimber. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovitch, 1992), I wish I had the time to search for the comment she made in it about Jünger. Anyone can help? O tsukaresamadesu! Have a nice day. ===== Andre-Paul Itel apitel@yahoo.com Hic tamen hanc mecum potera requiescere noctem Fronde super viridi. Super nobis mitia poma, Castaneae molles et pressi copia lactis; Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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