Arendt and the «savage history»: reflections about politics and history that can’t be made

Abstract

This paper present Hannah Arendt’s peculiar criticism of the modern idea of History, following the itinerary that goes from the original sense of «politics» to its replacement with the idea of «art of governing », as well as the apparition of the modern idea of History as a unitary and universal process. Finally, we will outline some elements of that other idea of history that is formulated from the notion of «historical crystallization», barely sketched by the author. The route we suggest presumes that Arendt, while intending to fight the oblivion and substitutions suffered by the political sphere, denouncing its poietic foundation, wants to formulate not only a new idea of politics but also a new idea of history.