O conceito de poder em Hannah Arendt como resposta ao diagnóstico da ruptura totalitária

Abstract

This thesis is the concept of power in the light of Hannah Arendt totalitarian experience. What we pretend to demonstrate is that you can allocate power totalitarian, based on ideology and without terror, in total situation totally, characterizing to tolitarianism, first, as an event new, second, as a phenomenon of essentially antipolitical nature. Using an inventive and unusual methodology, Arendt traces the "elements" which, although already present in the culture, crystallized totalitarianism, starting a whole process it terrible and terrifying. Elements, Arendt suggests, acquire their proper proportions in modernity: the confusion between public and private, the liquidation of class society, the emergence of the masses, the glorification of work and victory laborans animal. Situations that annihilated any possibility of understanding and explanation of reality in modern-contemporary world. For Arendt, the advent of forced labor and concentration camps that have become obsolete as conceptuais frameworks of our tradition of political-philosophical and Western thought. The disruption to the tradition forced Arendt to revisit the classical Greek and Roman antiquity, whose conditions allowed him to regain power in its pure or legitimate way, distinguishing the phenomena that not only are foreign, as were historically treated by our tradition of political-philosophical thinking, as correlates. At the threshold of our contemporaneity, Arendt, now under a new impetus and looking a little more optimistic in the face of events, sees in the system of councils and movements of struggle and resistance that have erupted all over the globe, the possibility even if slight and fleeting, of a new political structure, whose institutions and features proved all contrary to the modus operandi totalitarian. In this paper, we will have as a guiding principle the introduction of a concept of power different from the one commonly used in the theoretical frameworks of our tradition aims at offering a viable political answer to the total government. In the modern-contemporary context we know that many of the "elements" inherent in its emergence and maintenance are present. It is, therefore, a reflection on what should not have happened and it should be remembered, so as not to happen again.