Heidegger reanimated past philosophers so students felt thinking itself had revived

Evidence

As Hannah Arendt summed it up: ‘Thinking has come to life again; the cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak … There exists a teacher; one can perhaps learn to think.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Arendt’s framing that past thinkers can be ‘made to speak’ connects to the hermeneutic tradition of dialogue with dead authors, and to the reader’s interest in how phenomenology reapproached the tradition. — connects to: Sartre bridged generations of students back to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 75; Heidegger’s charisma drew older philosophers into intense collaboration — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 185; Being and Time’s publication was a theatrical, near-ceremonial event among Heidegger’s students — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 194 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Philosophy advances by continually reinterpreting its past classics #exemplifies (0.85)