Heidegger carried on an intimate affair with his student Hannah Arendt

Evidence

It was a relief to be back: Heidegger was never happy in Marburg, which he called a ‘foggy hole’, but it did give his career its first big push, and while there he also had an intoxicating affair with his student Hannah Arendt. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 187

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s later political theory and her fraught relationship with Heidegger after his Nazi affiliation. — connects to: Heidegger’s lecture style captivated students through dramatic obscurity rather than clarity — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 190

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s lecture style captivated students through dramatic obscurity rather than clarity #complicates (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 190