This essay elaborates on Hannah Arendt’s until recently unpublished essay The Freedom to Be Free: the Conditions and Meaning of Revolution (dated 1966-1967 and now included in the volume Thinking Without a Banister. Essays in Understanding 1954-1975, New York 2018). My claim is that in this essay Arendt partially reconsiders her theory of revolutions by amending her controversial position as regards the so-called “social question”, by criticizing more explicitly the traditional link between revolution and violence, by establishing a clearer nexus between revolution and natality. This essay re-defines revolutions as autonomous political beginnings, and in so doing offers another version of her notion of the vita activa as circular dimension, one that has its end in itself.
"La libertà di essere liberi". Circolarità della politica e autonomia della rivoluzione in Hannah Arendt
Olivia Guaraldo
2018-01-01
Abstract
This essay elaborates on Hannah Arendt’s until recently unpublished essay The Freedom to Be Free: the Conditions and Meaning of Revolution (dated 1966-1967 and now included in the volume Thinking Without a Banister. Essays in Understanding 1954-1975, New York 2018). My claim is that in this essay Arendt partially reconsiders her theory of revolutions by amending her controversial position as regards the so-called “social question”, by criticizing more explicitly the traditional link between revolution and violence, by establishing a clearer nexus between revolution and natality. This essay re-defines revolutions as autonomous political beginnings, and in so doing offers another version of her notion of the vita activa as circular dimension, one that has its end in itself.
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