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I M A G E G A L L E R Y
The Image Gallery is a cumulative exhibit of representative items from the Arendt Collection including: books featuring inscriptions and dedications, loose correspondence and enclosures discovered between the pages of the books in the collection, photographs, post cards, greeting cards, loose notes and loose art work. Click on the thumbnails below to view images fullsize. The View Marginalia links offer pdfs of Arendt's marginalia from that item.
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Martin Heidegger - “Interpretationen Aus Der Antiken Philosophie: Aristoteles. Metaphysik. Buch Theta. Zweistündige Vorlesung im Sommer-Semester 1931.”
Typewritten manuscript, held in a folder titled: “Interpretationen aus der antiken Philosophie. Aristoteles-Metaphysik-Buch Theta. ss 1931. Heidegger. In pencil above the title of the folder is written: Logos. Wahrheit.
This is a full stenogram copy of the lecture course that runs 117 pages, mostly double-sided and double-spaced, on A9 paper, very thin.
Arendts underlinings and markings begin on page 86, with the discussion of 1046 b 22-24. Arendt underlines the sentence: “Damit trägt jede kraft insich und für sich die Möglichkeit des Absinkens indie (stet) Unkraft. Dieses Negativum der Kraft steht nicht einfach als Gegenteil irgendwo neben dem Positiven, sondern ist inihr (stet) selbst beheimatet. Weil die Kraft in sich ihrem Wesen nach mit der Zwiespältigkeit und damit mit dem “Nicht” versehen ist.” Her underlingings continues consistently through to the end.

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Martin Heidegger - Zeit und Sein
This is a reprint of Heidegger’s lecture held on Jan. 31, 1962 in Freiburg. It is inscribed “Für Hannah Martin” in Freiburg on 12. July, 1968. As an offprint that has been closely read and heavily marked, it is in fragile condition.
Arendt has underlined many of the instances of Heidegger’s discussion of the “Es” of “es gibt”, at one point making a square box around the word “Es”. In Heidegger’s discussion of “Seinsgeschichte” and the “Geschick von Sein,” Arendt puts a questionmark next to the sentence: “Die Folge der Epochen im Geschick von sein ist weder zufällig, noch lässt sie sich als notwendig errechnen.” She has underlined “weder zufällig, noch” and “notwendig,” suggesting that she either questions or doesn’t understand the claim that the epochs follow in a necessary “Geschick.”
Arendt also heavily underlines and stresses a paragraph in which Heidegger introduces the concept of the “Zeit-Raum.” She underlines the sentence: “Zeit-Raum nennt jetzt das Offene, das im Einandersichreichen von Zukunft, Gewesenheit und Gegenwart sich lichtet.” She also marks the final sentence of the paragraph: “Das lichtende Einander-sich-reichen von Zukunft, Gewesenheit und Gegenwart ist selber vorräumlich; nur deshalb kann es Raum einräumen, d.h. geben.”
Arendt’s most extensive comments come in the paragraph beginning, “Aber wo gibt es die Zeit und den Zeit-Raum?” She comments next to the underlined sentences: “Zeit gibt es nicht ohne den Menschen. Doch was meint dieses “nicht ohne”? Ist der Mensch der Geber der Zeit oder ihr Empfänger? Und Wenn er dieser ist, wie empfängt der Mensch die Zeit?"

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Walter Muschg & Karl Jaspers - Goethe-Feier: Asprachen im Münster, 1949
Signed by Karl Jaspers |
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Martin Heidegger - Pensivement
Inscribed “Für Hannah Martin” on 22 April 1971. This is a fragile collection of Heidegger’s poems dedicated to René Char, and printed in German and French on facing pages. There are no annotations by Arendt. |
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Martin Heidegger - Vom Wesen des Grundes
(Sonderdruck aus der Festschrift für Edmund Husserl, Halle a.d.S. Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1929).
This is an original offprint from 1929 that is in poor condition. It runs from page 71-110. Pages 73-81 are heavily marked, with most of the annotations coming in part one of the essay, “Das Problem des Grundes.” Of particular interest to Arendt is the sentence: “Der Wahrheit wohnt demnach ein wesensmäßiger Bezug inne zu dergleichen wie “Grund”.” (75)
On page 78, Arendt puts three exclamation points next to the sentence: “Unverborgenheit des Seins aber ist immer Wahrheit des Seins von seiendem, mag dieses wirklich sein oder nicht.” This last phrase, “mag dieses wirklich sein oder nicht”, is underlined.
In part two of the essay, “Die Transzendenz als Bezirk der Frage nach dem Wesen des Grundes,” Arendt has heavy markings on pages 80-81, and then her markings cease. She shows an interest in Heidegger’s use of transcendence. On 80, she underlines his definition: “Transzendenz bedeutet Überstieg. Transzendent (transzendierend) ist, was den Überstieg vollzieht, im Übersteigen verweilt. Dieses eignet als Geschehen einem Seienden.” Again on 81, she emphasizes Heidegger’s claim that transcendence means “was dem menschlichen Dasein eignet,… als vor aller Verhaltung geschehende Grundverfassung dieses Seienden.” Grundverfassung is heavily underlined, 2-3 times. Similarly, she underlines Heidegger’s statement that: “die Transzendenz bezeichnet das Wesen des Subjekts, ist Grundstruktur der Subjektivität.” (81) |
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Critique Novembre 1966
Signed "Martin" by Heidegger. |
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Gershom Scholem - Die Lehre vom ((Gerechten)) in der judischen Mystik
Signed by Author. |
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Gershom Scholem - Tradition und Kommentar als religiose Kategorien im Judentum
Signed by author. |
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The dedication page of a small portfolio of Alcopley's work with an introduction by Heinrich Bluecher (who signs it "h.b."). |
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Reproduction in Alcopley portfolio. |
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Another reproduction from Alcopley portfolio. |
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Heinrich Bluecher's introduction for Alcopley's portfolio. |
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5 in by 7 in. Ink (?) on paper. Signed: Alcopley 1962 in the upper left corner. Reverse: "Xmas 1962" - Message: "A Happy 1963 for Hannah and Heinrich Love Alcopley Nina Una Dora" [signed in their own hands]. |
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10 in by 2 3/4 in. Watercolor, ink, applique on paper. Reproductions of work by Nina Tryggvadottir and Alcopley - signed in pencil by both artists. Message: "Happy 1958 Nina, Una Dora, Al" [all in the same hand]. |
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5 1/2 in by 1 3/4 in. Ink on paper. Drawn on the blank side of a freight bill. Inscription: "For Hannah Love Alcopley N.Y.C 15.5.1959" - Signed: Alcopley 1959
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5 1/2 in by 4 3/4 in. Ink on paper.
Drawn on the blank side of a freight bill.
Inscription: "From Heinrich to Heinrich" (?)
Signed: Alcopley 1959 |
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An 8 in by 10 in page folded in half to form a bi-fold 5 in by 7 in. New Year's card. The front features an ink (?) on paper work by Alcopley, approx. 5 in by 4 in. titled in the lower left in pencil - The Little Harbor. Signed: Alcopley 1946. Inside message: "To Heinrich and his dear girl Hannah A Happy New Year From Alcopley Condition: The paper is very friable and a large ink stain covers 10-15% of the work. |
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7 1/2 in by 6 in. Ink on paper. Signed: Alcopley 1954 [in pencil]. A small up-pointing arrow is drawn in pencil on the upper left corner. |
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8 in by 10 in. Photograph of Alcopley. Dedication: "To Heinrich and Hannah from Alcopley NYC 6-18 (?)-52." |
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This postcard from Walter Benjamin in San Remo to Hannah Stern (Arendt) in Paris was discovered tucked into a volume now in the Hannah Arendt Collection, Leib Seele Einheit, by Hans Prinzhorn. Copyright 1927 by Muller and Kiepenheuer Verlag, Potsdam. |
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Postcard from Elizabeth Stamber [Bard Faculty, 1959 - 1988] to Heinrich Bluecher disovered tucked into Bernard Stamber's Dante's Other World; the Purgatorio as a guide to the Divine Comedy. New York University Press, 1957, now in the Hannah Arendt Collection. |
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