ABSTRACT The value of human plurality has come under threat by, among others, populist movements. To find illumination of our dark times, political thinkers have recently turned to the political thought of Hannah Arendt. Since the concept of human plurality is at the heart of Arendt’s oeuvre, Sophie Loidolt’s book Phenomenology of Plurality promises to be a timely and important contribution to both the scholarship on Arendt and the moral-political problems of the present. However, while Loidolt’s book offers an impressive phenomenological analysis of Arendt’s work, it does not entirely succeed in demonstrating the relevance of Loidolt’s phenomenological musings for the political, moral and social problems of our age. My criticism, in other words, is not (only) that Loidolt develops a problematic interpretation of Arendt; my point, rather, is that large parts of this interpretation are of limited political relevance; and my more general point is that interpreters who misconstrue – or refuse to take seriously – Arendt’s distinction between the philosopher and the political theorist are bound to fail to grasp the nature, the central orientation and, ultimately, the enormous potential of her distinctly political theory.

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罗马纵火时摆弄：汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）论多元化的价值和政治理论家的作用

摘要人类多元化的价值受到民粹主义运动等的威胁。为了找到我们黑暗时代的光辉，政治思想家最近转向了汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）的政治思想。由于人类多元化的概念是阿伦特作品的核心，索菲·洛伊多特（Sophie Loidolt）的《多元化现象学》一书有望对阿伦特的学术研究和当前的道德政治问题做出及时而重要的贡献。然而，尽管Loidolt的书对Arendt的著作进行了令人印象深刻的现象学分析，但它并不能完全成功地证明Loidolt的现象学思想与当今时代的政治，道德和社会问题具有相关性。换句话说，我的批评并非（仅）是Loidolt对Arendt提出了有问题的解释。我的意思是 是这种解释的大部分在政治上是有限的；我更笼统的观点是，对阿伦特在哲学家和政治理论家之间的区分有误解或拒绝认真对待的解释者注定无法掌握其独特的政治理论的性质，中心定位以及最终的巨大潜力。