Hannah Arendt’s theory of judgment revisited

Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Giorgio Rizzo
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2016/3
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 189-205 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2016-003013
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The author shows how the contrast, within Arendt’s thought, between a "theory" of judgment regarding the political actor and a "theory" of judgment appealing to Kant’s Critique of Judgment would be not only hermeneutical unfounded but also inconsistent from a theoretical point of view. The faculty of judgment is only one and the "political" and the "aesthetical" are only two distinct "aspects" of it.

Keywords: Arendt, Aesthetics, Judgment, Kant, World, Politics.

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Giorgio Rizzo, La teoria del giudizio di Hannah Arendt "revisited" in "PARADIGMI" 3/2016, pp 189-205, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2016-003013