THE STORY OF A BEGINNING: THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF HANNAH ARENDT

There are few reference works that stop in analysing the importance of the biography of Rahel Varnhagen in the context of the production of Hannah Arendt. Nevertheless, we believe we are able to affirm that this study constitutes in an indispensable element for the debate about her position respect to the tradition of German philosophy as well as to investigate in the conformation of her political thought. In this sense with the biography of Rahel, Arendt initiates an itinerary of thought, in which the same action of relating is a responsible act, a political act that attests and reveals a beginning.