Art of Life and Vita activa

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Abstract

[In English]

The article deals with H. Arendt’s concept vita activa regarding the connection between philosophy and existence. Existence is treated as a unit story to be inscribed in the spiritual background (Hintergrund) of coexistence. Philosophy as a school of existence (ex-sistus) is also a technē of this existential inscribing. According to the author, life is a stream that we order when inscribing its events into a mobile existential story that emerges in the spiritual background. The author of an existential story is creating its hero, which inspires a rebirth of the author. Such modi as birth and death are interconnected factors of existential creating. The death gives the wholeness to the existential creation and (re)birth gives mobility that characterizes not only the story from birth to death, but also the spiritual background in which this story is inscribed. According to the author, the birth and the death are analogous but not similar. They both interconnect in the creation of the existential story. The author develops these questions with the help of conceptual apparatus of existential phenomenology (Heidegger, Husserl) which is applied in the interpretation of H. Arendt’s conception vita activa. The aim of the article is not only the interpretation of H. Arendt’s thinking, but also the development of the phenomenology of culture as an existential creation.