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Which relative was he associated with through marriage?

  • Hannah Arendt

  • Simone de Beauvoir

  • Doris Lessing

  • Zelda Fitzgerald

Answer

The answer is Hannah Arendt. She was a renowned German-American political theorist and philosopher. Heidegger, a prominent German philosopher, was Arendt's philosophy professor and mentor during her university days in Marburg, Germany. Heidegger's wife, Elfride Heidegger, was Hannah Arendt's close friend. Arendt and Heidegger remained in contact for many years, even after she left Germany due to the rise of Nazism.
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