In the following, I would like to present some central aspects of Hannah Arendt’sthinking and work that identify her as a non-academic and non-intellectual.In do-ing so,I would like to take up the criticism often levelled at her and turn it in a pos-itive way.The criticism not only concerns her reportEichmanninJerusalem,her sup-posedly conservative nostalgia for the Greek polis, or her critiq…