Digressions on the Concept of History in Hannah Arendt

Abstract

In the following article we will offer some reflections on history in Hannah Arendt's work, starting from the premise that it is based on her concept of action. To this end, we will turn to different texts in which the German author discussed crucial notions for her definition of the human condition, namely, the three activities under which man was given life on Earth –labor, work and action– and the separation between the public and the private. Our link with the past and its relation to both the present and the future will also be at the center of the journey we will propose here.