Hannah Arendt autora e paciente
Uma revisão de A condição humana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5843858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathalia Silva Carneiro (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/d.8.2019.tde-25092019-133052 |
| OpenAlex | W2977129368 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This master's dissertation performs a critical reading of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition (1958).More than contradictions -on the one hand, radical democratic and on the other, elitist -we will find a coherence with what I call "Western alienation from otherness".The work studied here reveals itself as a moment of elaboration and theoretical fixation of this alienation, especially from the notion of "human reality".To understand this it is necessary not to reify the return to the polis, but rather to politicize Arendt's writings by locating them.I depart from the events cited in the prologue to remount the problems of his time that concerned Arendt.I show that the author's main question in this book remains the possibility of totalitarian movements, as these are based on mass conformism.However, for the author, a major responsible for this conformity would be the technological development that would be to "free humanity from the burden of work".I argue that the key to understanding this strange characterization is to see that Arendt intended an analysis of capital without taking its global process into account.Later the author will state that "the third world does not exist".Next I seek to understand the modern age -the seventeenth century until the early twentieth century -in Arendt's view.To this end, I start from three events cited at the beginning of the last chapter of the book: the telescope, the Protestant Reformation, and the "discovery" of America.I redo the analysis of the development of "alienation from the earth," the result of the scientific advance represented by the telescope; and then reconstruct his narrative about the Protestant Reformation that would have started capitalism.At this point I deal with the difficulty that Arendt's separation of public and private presents.However, I contend that even though this division can be interpreted in a mitigated way, it depends on an earlier exclusion: the establishment of the world precedes it.Finally, I try to understand the lack of elaboration of the third event, the Great Navigations.Apart from its main consequences not being mentioned, we have received no explanation of the peculiar kind of alienation they engendered.In this work I choose to name it "Western alienation from otherness."I return to Arendt's treatment of Imperialism in Origins of Totalitarianism to reveal that the reason why the author becomes incapable of dealing with colonization in The Human Condition is because she is mobilizing this alienation in her analyzes.Thus, her answer to his main concern is very limited: as the line linking colonization, slavery, imperialism and Nazism shows, one of the main elements of these movements is insensitivity to peripheral deaths.Finally, I propose that the subversion of the division of the vita contemplativa and vita activa in The human condition can be understood as Arendt's response to totalitarianism.On the other hand, maintaining a strong
Alienation · Art · Epistemology · Humanities · Humanity · Literature · Novella · Political science · Prologue · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and Literary Analysis · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |