Institut Ramon LLull

It is incredibly challenging to tame and frame both the energy and radical independence of Arendt’s philosophy. It is also quite difficult to write a book about one of the most influential and quoted thinkers of the past decades. Fina Birulés, a world authority -an Arendtian concept in itself- on her fellow philosopher, succeeds in both endeavours with a personal approach to Arendt’s work and uncovers new and illuminating threads of thought.

Birulés chooses two recurring categories in the work of this German-Jewish philosopher -the world and natality- to explain her thinking and how it is still relevant today. She speaks of tradition, beginnings, community, distance, freedom, memory, education, creating meaning, understanding, and responsibility. Under the attentive gaze of Hannah Arendt, this essay reveals that what is truly at stake is the very world itself.