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Typology or hermeneutics. Phenomenological tension in the two phases of Arendtian judgment?

Abstract:

Arendt died without finishing the last part of The Life of the Mind, dedicated to judgment. Without a definitive position, Arendt's interpreters have divided two phases of their theory of judgment and have tried to explain the relationship between the two. The first phase would be centered on the actor, while the second one reflects the viewer's position of action. This article approaches the question from a phenomenological position, noting that these two phases reveal the tension of the hermeneutic turn of phenomenology: either we admit the possibility of an endless hermeneutic to facilitate the political exercise of the actor, or, we establish certain exemplary of judgment with which to identify the political reality, without going beyond what we have established as a typology.