concentrates on the aestheticpolitical
character of appearance and judgement (both showing marked
‘performative’ features) and aims at defining the ontological and
phenomenological premises of political stances and aggregations, in
both action and judgment. In this paper I describe the meeting of
politics and aesthetics in Hannah Arendt’s thought, following three
main guiding principles: 1) a foundation that is more bio-aesthetic
than anthropological of birth-natality as the arrival and appearance
of an individual on the world stage. 2) a nexus of doxa-judgment,
giving rise to an ontological perspectivism: each ‘opinion’ reveals a
‘portion of the world’. 3) a chiasma of action and judgment (following
the Denkungsart of the faculty of judgment formulated by Kant in the
Third Critique) as group-being performativity.