@baglandeniz As a former Arendt scholar I can answer a little: What Agamben & Arendt share is a Verfallsgeschichte (history of decline, I think), they both disbelief modernity's capacity for creation, & critique "productive" model of the world, consequence of Marxist sociology1/5
Their concept of history (Arendt doesn't have one) has some similarities, "constraints on freedom" (very Heideggerian) & no telos/meaning/reason, but they part ways in a very significant aspect. Arendt's grand narrative is closer to Hegel than Heidegger 2/5
Especially around the notion of modern dynamic justice (Hegel's Sittlichkeit), so there're breaks in Arendt's wheel of the apocalypse. Agamben on the other hand is pure mystic, he got to know the much later Heidegger, after "die Kehre" when he had already abandoned project 3/5
of remaking historicity, & devoted him to cheap metaphysics. Arendt's text "Home to Roost" (1975), on the bicentennial of American revolution shows you she had ability to understand (present) historical change, in spite of the Polis. 4/5
Lastly on technology: Both share Heideggerian "Gestell" (framework?), but HA was married to Gunther Anders, one of the key European philosophers of technology (quite apocalypticist too) whereas Agamben never quite treated the topic seriously except when convenient. The end! 5/5
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