The Action chapter of Hannah Arendt’s 'The Human Condition' opens with a quotation from Dante’s 'Monarchia'. Why does Arendt choose this exergue? Why does she open the discussion of the “political activity par excellence” and fulcrum of her reactivation of active life with a reference to an author who asserts the primacy of the speculative over the practical? The paper delves into Arendt’s reflection and articulates its discourse in three parts: 1. the marginal position of Dante in Arendt’s work and the enigma of Dante’s quotation; 2. Dante as the philosopher of active life; 3. the intensification of the agent’s being and its revelatory function.
Arendt and Dante / Peluso, R. - (2023). (Intervento presentato al convegno Interdisciplinary Arendt: Pluralism, Promise, Problems tenutosi a University of Aberdeen, Scotland, GB nel 22-25 agosto 2023).
Arendt and Dante
Peluso, R
2023
Abstract
The Action chapter of Hannah Arendt’s 'The Human Condition' opens with a quotation from Dante’s 'Monarchia'. Why does Arendt choose this exergue? Why does she open the discussion of the “political activity par excellence” and fulcrum of her reactivation of active life with a reference to an author who asserts the primacy of the speculative over the practical? The paper delves into Arendt’s reflection and articulates its discourse in three parts: 1. the marginal position of Dante in Arendt’s work and the enigma of Dante’s quotation; 2. Dante as the philosopher of active life; 3. the intensification of the agent’s being and its revelatory function.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
