Traces and Transitions to Hannah Arendt’s unwritten book of love

The existing scholarship on love in Arendt’s writing approaches the topic either from an autobiographical viewpoint (with emphasis on her relationship to Heidegger) or examines her philosophy of love systematically, opposing the ‘love of neighbor’ (Nächstenliebe) and the passionate love. The article, in contrast, reads Arendt’s writing on love as thinking in transition, at the threshold of experience and thoughts, and as a boundary concept, which has fundamental effects on its shape and character within the dialectics of privacy and the public realm, of intimacy and human affairs.