Marańskie matactwa Hanny Arendt a prawda jej kryptoteologii
Hanna Arendt's Marian mischief and the truth of its cryptotheology

Author(s): Rafał Zawisza
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cognitive Psychology, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Hanna Arendt; natality; cryptotheology
Summary/Abstract: The text is a reading of Hanna Arendt's Human Condition in terms of concept natality, showing the relationship between this book from 1958 and the previous one decades of the author's doctorate. The keystone here is the thought of Augustine of Hippo,whose subject matter Arendt translates into a modern language, striving for the ultimate overcoming the gnosis that stems from both Christianity and from modern times. The era of nihilism as modern gnosis degrades life to the biological process that Arendt contrasts with the "divinity of birth", or rather the latent sacredness of spontaneity. However, the operation was overcomegnosis is revealed only in a patient study full of nuances author's language. The hypothesis that Arendt works on concepts as "philosophical maranka”, allows the explanation of the statement that her secular anthropology is cryptotheology.

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