La revelación del quién en el mundo contemporáneo. Consideraciones a partir de las concepciones de Hannah Arendty de Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

This paper purposes to argue with Paul Ricoeur's interpretation accordingto which a narrative concept of identity may be found in Hannah Arendt's works. Firstly, Arendt's peculiar fragmentary nature of narration will be studied. Secondly, the connection between identity and speech depicted by Arendt will be emphasized on, thus allowing for an articulation of a not necessarily narrative character. Finally, it shall be considered that identity has a phenomenological dimension in Arendt, manifest in the fact that theí¿'who' appears andUNLPshows itselfí¿only to others.í¿These singularities of Arendt's approach are in turn clarified in relation to Walter Benjamin's concept of history and his notion of dialectical image