[...]Liebrecht does not address Arendt’s rationalizations or the reasons for her dedication to Heidegger, though the dramatist’s title suggests that it is the banal truth of the irrationality of love. This neglects both Arendt the theorist and Arendt the public intellectual. Is her portrait of an innocently banal Heidegger merely the flip side of her portrait of Adolf Eichmann as a ghostly bureaucrat?[...]Read the rest on The Arts Fuse.
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I came upon this essay today by Sol Stern, that while neither addressing Arendt's relationship with Heidegger in detail, nor Liebrecht's play specifically, it does show how Arendt had a rather long streak of issuing philosophical proclamations that had little basis in empirical fact (like her teacher) often with great rhetorical power:
http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_hannah-arendt.html
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