The aim of this article is to compare Hannah Arendt and Jan Patočka on the basis of their own interpretations of modern nihilism and of totalitarianism as symptoms and on their own post-nihilistic perspectives. Both were scholars of totalitarianism and victims of it at the same time. And for both the origins of totalitarianism are to be searched in the history of metaphysics, which results in what Patočka identifies as ‘objectivism’. Arendt and Patočka present two diverse but complementary developments of objectivism about the critique of modernity and the abandonment of the present nihilistic time. Both highlight forms of ‘spiritual’ resistance, i.e. intellectual and moral resistance, able to produce changes also in the social and political spheres under certain circumstances.
Questo articolo propone un confronto tra Hannah Arendt e Jan Patočka mettendo in evidenza la loro ermeneutica del nichilismo moderno e del totalitarismo in termini sintomali e la loro prospettiva postnichilistica. Per entrambi alla base dei fenomeni totalitari, dei quali sono vittime e allo stesso tempo studiosi, sta la storia della metafisica che sfocia in ciò che Edmund Husserl definisce “oggettivismo”. Arendt e Patočka propongono sviluppi diversi e complementari di tale tema husserliano non solo per quanto riguarda la critica della modernità, bensì anche per l’individuazione di prospettive di fuoriuscita dal momento nichilistico contemporaneo – prospettive che insistono su forme di resistenza “spirituale”, vale a dire intellettuale e insieme morale, capaci di produrre in certe circostanze anche un cambiamento nella sfera sociale e politica.
(2025). Arendt e Patocka: un confronto su basi socratiche = Arendt and Patočka: A Comparison on a Socratic Basis [journal article - articolo]. In NUOVA SECONDARIA. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/320806
Arendt e Patocka: un confronto su basi socratiche = Arendt and Patočka: A Comparison on a Socratic Basis
Maletta, Santino
2025-01-01
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The aim of this article is to compare Hannah Arendt and Jan Patočka on the basis of their own interpretations of modern nihilism and of totalitarianism as symptoms and on their own post-nihilistic perspectives. Both were scholars of totalitarianism and victims of it at the same time. And for both the origins of totalitarianism are to be searched in the history of metaphysics, which results in what Patočka identifies as ‘objectivism’. Arendt and Patočka present two diverse but complementary developments of objectivism about the critique of modernity and the abandonment of the present nihilistic time. Both highlight forms of ‘spiritual’ resistance, i.e. intellectual and moral resistance, able to produce changes also in the social and political spheres under certain circumstances.| File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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