Legge della pluralità o armonia del potere? Annotazioni su una possibilità di pensare Arendt contro Arendt

摘要

In this article I intend to trace and discuss a contradiction, which – I believe – lies in Arendt’sthought: the one between her concept of plurality and her concept of power. In amore specific way, I will argue that Arendt, by admitting only an intransitive understandingof power, betrays her vision of plurality, as this one cannot exclude a transitive conceptionof power.Furthermore, I will try to detect how this same contradiction reflects itself in anothertopical place of Arendt’s thought, i.e. her critical opposition to political representation.Here the direction of my arguing can be expressed by a simple question: isn’t maybe representationa much more adequate way to correspond plurality than Arendt’s tendency toacclaim an aggregative and quasi-organic collective participation?