Her Readings of Arendt in Hannah Arendt: Thinking and Action. The Banality of Evil (2018)

Abstract

Why is experience considered the foundational ground from which to conceptualize reality, so as to avoid falling into structural injustice? This is an open question to which Felicitas's text partially responds, without arriving at a definitive conclusion—a legitimate approach, as there is no intent to provide a final answer, which would entail closing off the very nature of experience. Rather, the aim is to pursue the possibility of comprehension through thinking in order to dwell in the truth of existence, grounded in the premise of being-for-life—a postulate antithetical to the Heideggerian notion of being-toward-death.