ABSTRACT
“What I would like to see and what cannot be achieved today would be such a change in circumstances that everyone could freely choose where he would like to exercise his political rights and responsibilities and in which cultural tradition he feels most comfortable. So that there will finally be an end to genealogical investigations both here and in Europe” (Arendt to Jaspers, June 30, 1947, in Arendt [1985] 1992, 91).
