"Ettinger's tale is absorbing and cruelly fascinating. She is scrupulously attentive to the known facts and unsparing in her exposure of both Heidegger's mendacity and Arendt's propensity for self-deception where the philosopher was concerned". -- Richard Bernstein, New York Times Book Review

"The ballad of Hannah and Martin is fascinating, revealing sides of these remarkable personalities that until now have been hidden". -- Kirkus Reviews

"Hannah Arendt Martin Heidegger is important for the biographical light that it sheds upon the development of Arendt's thought". -- Richard Wolin, The New Republic

"(Ettinger) has constructed this strange, tormented, and in some ways tragic love affair in a slim, elegantly written volume.... This material casts new light on the emotional lives of the main protagonists -- much less so on their philosophy and politics -- all the while telling a fascinating story.... A startling intimate glimpse into some of the more somber byways of relations between Germans and Jews, and into the heart's perversities". -- Robert S. Wistrich, Commentary