The idea of revolution in Arendt's philosophy: a dialectic with the Kantian concept of revolution

Beatrice Sofia Vitale

The book On the Revolution, written by Arendt, will be the guideline of this discourse in order to show how the author considers the revolution as an act which, in the future outside the political field, is to be considered a natural event that produces a return to a natural condition. The revolution presents itself as a paradox: it is an experience that forcefully enters a political system and, therefore, conditions it. Wars and revolutions will therefore be the basis of political violence. By virtue of these premises we propose to delve deeper into how, on the other hand, Kant sees political revolution as a crime and rejects it as a crime against humanity and law itself. it is necessary to investigate how his idea of revolution is, rather, linked to an idea of progress, as long as it is natural, a concept that will lead us, as we will see, to a problematic reflection.