From Kant to Kelsen. Hannah Arendt and the Many Roads to Pluralism

How useful is it to analyse together the intellectual relationships that exist between Arendt and Kant, on the one hand, and the similarities that might exist between Arendt and Kelsen, on the other? More specifically, is such an attempt fruitful in the context of a discussion on the crisis of democracy? The preliminary and limited attempt explored here contends, by taking some liberties and downplaying the impact of their respective inconsistencies and of some methodological discrepancies, that the question of pluralism, albeit seen in different ways, can be usefully seen as a possible common thread linking Arendt with Kant and Kelsen and pointing to a crucial, even excruciating, problem for contemporary democracies.