Hannah Arendt argumenterer for et begreb om politisk frihed, der er tæt knyttet til personens fremtræden på den offentlige scene. 

Arendts teori om offentlig fremtrædelse er imidlertid frakoblet problemerne med forsvinden og usynlighed - under totalitære regimer, under slaveri og fattigdom.

For bedre at forstå den intuition, som ligger bag Arendts vedholdende insisteren på et begreb om frihed, der er sammenfaldende med muligheden for at komme til syne i offentligheden, må man medtænke erfaringerne af at blive frataget denne mulighed.

Juliane Rebentisch er professor i Filosofi og Æstetik ved is Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main. Hun er medlem af Research Council ved Institute for Social Research i Frankfurt/Main.

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Hannah Arendt advocates a concept of political freedom that is intimately linked to the appearance of the person on the public stage.

However, Arendt's theory of public appearance is wrested from the problems of disappearance and invisibility - under totalitarian regimes, under conditions of slavery and poverty.

To better understand the intuition behind Arendt's persistent adherence to a notion of freedom that coincides with the possibility to appear in public, one must take into account the experiences of being deprived of this possibility.

Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main. She is a member of the Research Council at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main and a Regular Visiting Professor of the German Department at Princeton University