Abstract

This essay aims at illustrating Arendt’s references to Hegelian thought, from the perspective of are-thinking of the dialectics. By means of an analysis of such writings as The Life of the Mind, the author shows that Arendt grasps in the dialectical development of Hegel’s thought some “libertarian” implications, i.e. the fecundity of the human thoughts and actions, as against more conventional interpretations which regard dialectics as an unchangeable chain of thoughts and events. Denying that the outcome of the dialectical process may be the end of history, Arendt extracts the meaning of history and historical analysis by grafting on them the practice of narration, in order to recover a Time of the men, where the very narration of the events – i.e. of the life, not of ideas or truths – reaches the level of the political analysis and political action by means of the bridge of the faculty of judgement