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Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinished work
In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves
By the time she was 14, she had read the philosophical works of Immanuel Kant, the writings of her future professor Karl Jaspers on the Psychology of Worldviews, and taught herself Greek and Latin. Against this notion of Heidegger’s lonely authenticity, which became the foundation for German existentialism, Jaspers offered another understanding of what it meant to be conditioned by the world of everydayness. A student of Heidegger and Jaspers, and a fellow traveller of Sartre, Camus and Beauvoir from 1933-41 during her years of exile in Paris, Arendt rejected the idea that a true self exists within the self.
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