ABSTRACT: The current paper has the objective of establishing a dialogue between Hannah Arendt’s and Walter Benjamin’s views on the matter of history. The analysed authors have built a view on history as a rupture of time, facing the issues imposed by the XXth century (imperialism and World Wars). The concepts of experience, tradition and narrative, mobilized by the authors with different meanings, allow us to identify a common concern regarding the appropriation of historical knowledge by the present times. The articulation of Arendt’s and Benjamin’s ideas seeks to reclaim a current sight at the historical production, having as its political horizon the interference in reality and aiming to re-establish hope in human’s potential of agency....