At Hannah Arendt’s funeral in 1975, her lifelong friend Hans Jonas reflected:
It was the experience of the Republic here which decisively shaped her political thinking, tempered as it was in the fires of European tyranny and catastrophe, and forever supported by her grounding in classical thought. America taught her a way beyond the hardened alternative…
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