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Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher (29 January 1899 – 31 October 1970) was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt whom he had first met in Paris in 1936. During his life in America, Blücher traveled in popular academic circles and appears prominently in the lives of various New York intellectuals.
Heinrich Fritz Ernst Blücher [1] (* 29. Januar 1899 in Berlin; † 31. Oktober 1970 in New York) war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Philosoph, kosmopolitischer Intellektueller und Hochschullehrer. Er war in dritter Ehe mit der politischen Theoretikerin und Publizistin Hannah Arendt verheiratet.
Listen to the recorded lectures of Heinrich Blücher, a controversial philosopher and teacher who explored the sources of creative power in various figures and traditions. The podcasts introduce his philosophical approach and the main topics of his lecture series »Sources of Creative Power«.
Blücher was a working-class German leftist in exile; representative of the class of political enemies for whom the Nazis originally invented Dachau. As a young man at the end of the First World War, he was a Spartacist - a militant revolutionary who fell into the ambit of the newly formed German Communist Party.
Heinrich Blücher was a philosopher and educator who taught at Bard College and The New School. He delivered hundreds of lectures on the history of philosophy and the philosophy of education, which were transcribed by his student Alexander Bazelow and edited by his wife Hannah Arendt.
The relationship between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher provides a historically located and well-documented instance of mutual learning and mutual self-fulfilment through a complex process of learning together.
The first lecture of »Sources of Creative Power« introduces to the philosophical position Heinrich Blücher takes up in his course. Understanding one's own situation as »troubled« appears as the condition to ask questions.
