Socrates or Heidegger? Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Philosophy and Politics.

The article presents information related to the views of Hannah Arendt, a philosopher, on the relation between thought and action, philosophy and politics and the controversy over philosophical preoccupations on Arendt's understandings of politics. This preoccupation comes to the surface in the writings of Arendt in the last twenty-five years of his life. She was a brilliant student of philosophy and has very little interest in politics. The shock of Nazism and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power catapulted her into concern with public affair. The account of Arendt on the way in which traditional Western understandings of politics have been distorted by philosophical preoccupations is highly controversial.