Arendt: Da filosofia da existência à crítica da filosofia política

Abstract

Hannah Arendt's intellectual and personal biography – inseparable from each other – is marked by two dates. The first is 1924, when she entered the University of Marburg to study philosophy with Martin Heidegger. The second is exact, February 27, 1933, when the Reichstag fire in Berlin was followed by preventive and illegal arrests that same night. Arendt herself was arrested and deprived of her liberty for a short time. Convinced that from that moment on one could not look the other way, she focused her efforts on politics and became one of her greatest theorists. We try to present a summary of the philosophical foundations that inform the course of Arendt's work, and from which it partly separates, converging with the critique of philosophy as a tutor of politics from Plato's dialogues. Even refusing the name of philosopher, Arendt never abandoned philosophy as a theoretical framework and it is evident that her posthumous book, The Life of the Mind, cannot be called any other way than a philosophical work.