Hannah Arendt´s Appropriation of Kant

Abstract

The present investigation, centered in Hannah Arendt´s thinking isoriented to show the importance that has her reflection on the totalitarianphenomenon for analyzing some of the contexts and tensions in the late assimilationof Kant´s philosophy – especially his Kritik der Urteilskraft- during thesixties and the seventies. This not imply to ignore certain displacementes withrespect the evolution of this subject in the work of our authoress, but rather thanthey are given inside a continuum. According to this, the faculty of judgement isthe endeavour, always unfinished, for thinking the politic figure of the espectatorand his peculiar autonomy; the politics of the spectator.