The paper highlights the importance of the kantian sources of Hannah Arendt’s philosophy.
The peculiar way Arendt confronts Kant is not only a significant manifestation of a
critical detachment from her former mentor Martin Heidegger and, more in general, from
every attempt to restore some kind of ontology as a necessary theoretical frame for political
thought. Arendt’s subscription of a kantian cosmopolitical approach supports her
critical attitude towards Modernity as well, in terms that cannot be fully grasped by an
over-simplified reading of the famous modern alienation from the world’s thesis.
