Hannah Arendt’s Heideggerian Aristotelianism

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Hannah Arendt is sometimes thought to present a modern Aristotelian politics, and this paper first explores that thought’s rationale. The rationale is Heideggerian, in that it follows Heidegger’s influential focus upon Aristotle’s division of action from both production and theory. Arendt criticizes what she calls “the tradition of political philosophy”, which allegedly conceals action beneath theory and ends with Marx’s confusion of action with production. This paper also questions the rationale of that critique.