Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship - Paperbackby Jon Nixon (Author) For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of four lifelong friendships with Heinrich Bl? cher, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Mary McCarthy. The book draws on correspondence