Introduction

Abstract

Although Hannah Arendt refrained from explicitly investigating meta-theoretical questions of epistemology and methodology, her writings do entail a self-reflective sub-text on the question of “how to think” adequately in political theory. Focusing on this sub-text, the present study suggests an interpretation of Arendt’s work as a “wandering” type of political theorizing . Theory is characterized by its oscillating movement between the experiential positions of philosophy and politics and by its distinctly multi-contextual perspective . In contrast to the “not of this world” attitude of philosophy , Arendt’s political theory is “of this world.” In contrast to politics, it refrains from being “at home” in any particular part of this world and instead wanders between the multiple horizons of the many different political worlds in time and space.