Critica e legittimazione del Moderno: motivi kantiani nel pensiero di Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The paper highlights the importance of the kantian sources of Hannah Arendt’s philosophy. The peculiar way Arendt confronts Kant is not only a significant manifestation of a critical detachment from her former mentor Martin Heidegger and, more in general, from every attempt to restore some kind of ontology as a necessary theoretical frame for political thought. Arendt’s subscription of a kantian cosmopolitical approach supports her critical attitude towards Modernity as well, in terms that cannot be fully grasped by an over-simplified reading of the famous modern alienation from the world’s thesis.