Thesis Eleven is honoured to be able to publish this text by our late friend and mentor Agnes Heller. It was secured in the period before her recent death, and is published now posthumously in her memory. Echoing her earlier text written as an Imaginary Preface to Arendt’s Totalitarianism, it responds to themes in the later text, The Life of the Mind. These were among the most eminent of the minds referred to later as Women in Dark Times. Their connection was not only institutional, via the New School, but represented a deep and ongoing affinity and critical engagement in political and philosophical terms. The imaginary letter arcs around issues and questions indicated by Cicero, Kant, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, including matters of republicanism, rhetoric and the question of thinking. Best of all, it shows Agnes Heller at work, at her best: it shows her thinking. Like Arendt, she offers inspiration, provocation, through thinking.

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思考：致汉娜·阿伦特的公开信

第十一篇很荣幸能够出版我们已故的朋友和导师艾格尼丝·海勒的这篇文章。它是在她最近去世前的时期获得的，现在在她死后出版以纪念她。与她早期作为阿伦特极权主义的虚构序言写成的文本相呼应，它回应了后来文本“心灵的生活”中的主题。这些是后来被称为黑暗时代的女性的最杰出的思想之一。他们的联系不仅是通过新学派的制度性联系，而且还代表了在政治和哲学方面的深刻和持续的亲和力和批判性参与。虚构的字母围绕西塞罗、康德、海德格尔和维特根斯坦指出的议题和问题展开，包括共和主义、修辞和思考问题。最重要的是，它展示了艾格尼丝·海勒在工作中的最佳状态：它显示了她的想法。像阿伦特一样，她通过思考提供灵感和挑衅。