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Das Politische nach dem Vorbild des Ästhetischen

Ein Beitrag Hannah Arendts zur Frage der politischen Subjektivierung


Back to issue: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2018/2: Subjektivierung
DOI: 10.28937/1000108262
EUR 16.90


This text is intended to show that in Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the possibilities of political judgment there is an idea of subjectivity that seeks to combine sociality and individuality. In Hannah Arendt’s case, the development of individual judgment becomes the precondition for allowing individuals to be given independent judgment. Arendt derives this concept of judgment from Kant’s reflections on the aesthetic power of judgment which she broadens and makes fruitful for political space. Using the example of aesthetic judgment, Arendt develops an idea of political subjectivity that is intended to respond to the destruction of the subject through totalitarian politics.