ABSTRACT
The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt merits a close, but critical reading. A return to all the works of Arendt might help put back flesh and blood onto the dry bones of a selective, albeit systematic reading of her work. The talk of discursive space, collective identity, otherness and agency, tend to obfuscate rather than clarify the structure of Arendt's political philosophy. On a larger canvas, from the opening remarks on Weber to the closing ones on Pizzorno, one fails to detect just what the author of this propaedeutic believes is the lasting legacy of Arendt, or for that matter, her temporal shortcomings. If Arendt's "indebtedness" to the Frankfurt School of Marxism is so great, how does it happen that it is precisely this school, this group, that is seen as the apotheosis of the totalitarian imagination she so vividly and forthrightly repudiates.
