Hanna Arendt, after one hundred years

Abstract

In the first centenary of Hannah Arendt’s birth, we could venture in the search of the path by which we can begin to talk about the clarity that her life and work have contributed to the history of philosophical thought. The work that one would attempt to do here is therefore, not merely biographic, since a work of that magnitude requires the time and space a biographer needs to know and account for an entire life. The interest in this paper is merely to highlight both the relevance of the first centenary of Hannah Arendt’s birth as well as the character of her philosophical attitude, anchored in a closely attachment to the world even in the darkest times, whose importance goes beyond the philosophical considerations around the political events of the 20th century in the same tasks that she highlighted for philosophy.