Judgment, imagination and enlarged mentality: the arendtian interpretation of the kantian aesthetic judgment

In this paper I intend to present some of the Kantian concepts presented in his Critique of judgment and appropriated by Hannah Arendt in her political analysis of the Kantian aesthetic judgment: judgment, imagination, enlarged mentality, common sense. Despite the difficulties arising from the unfinished character of Arendt's approach on the life of spirit, we attempt to expose that she finds, within Kant's works, the basic elements of her analysis of the mental activity of judging. She not only argues that the reflective aesthetic judgment might be politically adopted, but also that in the hidden political philosophy of Kantian work lies in the Critique of Judgment. To this controversial position I am only goin to refer to by analyzing the concepts of critical thinking and enlarged mentality.