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History's greatest philosophers built systems of universal love while crushing the people beside them. This book strips the intellectual packaging from Heidegger's secret affair with the young Hannah Arendt in Marburg, Kierkegaard's cruel manipulation of Regine Olsen, Sartre's "transparency pact" that masked systematic neglect of Beauvoir, and Wittgenstein's silent domination that drove Francis Skinner from Cambridge to a screw factory. The pattern repeats: rationalisation transforms abandonment into existential mission, infidelity into freedom.
You'll learn:
- How the "banality of evil" emerged from Arendt's personal betrayal
- Why Camus owed Francine the novel born from her breakdown
- The single sentence that protects boundaries better than any debate
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