Storytelling. Hannah Arendt e il racconto di storia

The essay argues that Arendt's idea of storytelling supports a non-organic idea of history and a narrative in terms of both a support to her theory of 'factual context' and a means to challenge teleology in historical determinism and traditional philosophies of history. In what respect does Arendt believe that storytelling as a non-partisan ‘shaping’ of fac- tual material can support the right of human beings to have access to factual truth? And how does storytelling contribute to illuminate what we my term Arendt’s non-organic idea of history, an idea capable of highlighting the ele- mentary structure of individual events understood as ‘crystallized’ historical entities? These are some of the issues the article is intended to cope with.