ハンナ・アーレントの『公的なもの』の概念 (一) : 現代の福音

Abstract

The present situation of Hannah Arendt study shows increasingly elaborate and diverse aspects. However, I think that there is common understanding about her originality. That is her effort to treat each human birth as an invocation of new beginning to the world and fix this "Birth" on the central category of her political thinking. The aim of this study is to clarify the center position of Arendt's thought by surveying the concept of her "the Public" which is recognized as her contribution to contemporary political theory. To begin with, we analyze the basic structure of her "the Public". Secondly, we appreciate the difference between her "the Public" and the concept of modern Publicness. Then we demonstrate that the today's significance of Arendt's thought consists in her vantage point of viewing Christianity.