The work searchs to reflect on the meaning of history in the work of Hannah Arendt, having as horizon the revision that the author undertakes concerning the traditional separation between theory and politics. In this direction, we supose that the valuation of the action and the indication of the dignity of the politics also enclose the consideration of the especificidade of history. Observing the quarrel on the nostalgic character of its thought and the evaluations that suggest the bias hermeneutic of its boarding of the past, we analyze the arendtian narrative of history occidental, questioning the possibility of if dealing with some type of philosophy of history. We search to understand the notion of forgetfulness of the politics who supports this narrative, on the other hand, examining estimated its concerning the responsibility and of the newness that are involved in the action human being and, for another one, thinking its ranks on the historiography, where history appears as a history of many starts and no end.