![]() ![]() ![]() About six decades after its publication in 1958, we want to reread and discuss Arendt’s chef d’oeuvre in the 9 th session of Critique 13/13-can The Human Condition provide us with analytical concepts and insights to understand our current political moment? As a political theorist, on the other hand, Hannah Arendt attempted to analyze politics and society “ mit ungetrübten Augen,” with unclouded eyes, an attempt which is probably best represented by her central work The Human Condition. Moreover, she continues, political philosophers of the Western tradition since Plato-except for such rare instances as Kant-all represent essentially the same and therefore a particular, non-neutral philosophical attitude toward politics. ![]() In an interview with Günter Gaus in 1964, Arendt specified that the term political philosophy, in her opinion, involved an inherent contradiction: While, for instance, the natural philosopher saw nature essentially from the same position as every other human being and could therefore make some general claims about nature, the philosopher can never maintain this neutral position in regard to politics. ![]() Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest political theorists of the last century, repeatedly insisted that she was not a philosopher. ![]()
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