Η συγκρότηση και η θεμελίωση του «πολιτικού» στη Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This work attempts a presentation of Hannah Arendt’s argument that in contemporary societies political freedom (the reconciliation of pluralism with political togetherness) can emerge only in a ‘public realm’. I argue that Arendt fails to ground this realm because the category of ‘action’ that underpins it as a distinct field of activities beyond the state and civil society, constitutes a self-referential process in which a political actor expresses his identity, disengaged from any social end or normative frame. In reconstructing her undertaking, I show that only a ‘communitarian’ envisagement of the good could endow action a lawful content and establish it as a responsible political activity.