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Pensar la política. Sobre el legado de Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt´s philosophical project is inextricably linked to the possibility of thinking politics in the modern world. Her attempt at writing “an introduction to politics” is discussed in the context of her philosophical notebooks and her most known works. The evolution of her thinking took her to reject the possibility of thinking politics from philosophy, after the horrors of the extermination camps and the rise of totalitarian regimes. Nevertheless, her reflections on Eichmann´s trial prompted her some nuances in her position that would finally allow her to rediscover the importance of the capacity to judge for thinking politics as well as the decisive intervention of philosophy in building that capacity.