Hannah Arendt is a German Jewish Philosopher (although she doesn't love this definition for herself) and Social Sciences Thinker, born in Hannover in 1906. She studies Philosophy with Martin Heidegger in Marburg and Karl Jaspers in Heidelberg. After Hitler’s raise to power, Arendt moves in France and then in the United States where lives until death, in 1975.

Well-known for her political works, in my thesis she is considered from another point of view: the private side of existence and the interior life. Even if in her thought lacks a systematic subjectivity theory, in any case Hannah Arendt approaches this theme.

For this purpose in my three chapters I concentrate on her literary essays about Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka and Isak Dinesen (pen name for Karen Blixen).

In every chapter I first of all describe the cultural context during which she produces her texts, with biographical and historical links. Later I study her critical work on each author and conclude presenting a theoretical part on the concept of subjectivity in Hannah Arendt.

          patrimony of  the Bliblioteca Comunale Centrale in Florence. 

-        2000 Thesis discussion at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. 

-        1998 Collection of bibliographical material (still unpublished in Italy)

           in English, French, German and  first partial writing during a six months

           stay at the University of Ruprecht-Karls in Heidelberg (Germany)

           as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange student.