Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg

In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion is framed within Hannah Arendt’s conceptualization of love as a manifestation of existence through the Augustinian journey of memory and as an existential force binding together the three faculties of the mind in her philosophical analysis: thinking, willing and judging. What I argue is that letters are crucial in enacting plurality and com- munication, and that Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade intensify rather than obscure the force of the political in opening up radical futures