La "Comunidad de lucha" Jaspers-Heidegger. Auge y caída de una amistad
Abstract
The two great German thinkers Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger were very
close friends. The very fact that they personally met each other on April 8, 1920,
in Freiburg im Breisgau, at the celebration of Edmund Husserl’s 61st birthday,
may be considered as an historical date in the history of philosophy. Among other
things that we find in the “Correspondence” between them, Heidegger says in
some letter: “In the silence I always philosophize with you”. Both thinkers proposed
to form together a so called “fighting society” (Kampfgemeinschaft), which would
seek to introduce a new way of thinking in Germany at that time. This common
project is related with the fact that both felt themselves to be marginal thinkers,
that did not belong to a philosophy that they dubbed “scholarly”. But this friendship
had its peak and fall. What brought the break in 1933 was Heidegger’s adhesion
to national-socialism. In fact, they never came together again, although the
correspondence was renewed in the post-war period.
