This article examines the ways in which Hannah Arendt deconstructs -or, as she says, dismantles-one fundamental assumption of the political and philosophical Western tradition: to believe in philosophy as a tool to solve political challenges.Arendt neither formulates a new normative political theory that may eventually be applicable in practice, nor does she regret the distance between philosophy and politics as if such a gap were a thinking flaw rather than a virtue of thought.Still, she seems to suggest that in political affairs no definite answers and solutions can be expected from promising theories elaborated by philosophers.