Counter-hegemonic organizations and the possibility of rediscovering politics in modernity: a contribution through Hannah Arendt’s thought

• Autor(a) principal: Zilio, Lara Bethânia
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Barcellos, Rebeca de Moraes Ribeiro de, Dellagnelo, Eloise Helena Livramento, Assmann, Selvino José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/7182
• topic: Hannah Arendt; Politics; Counter-hegemonic organizations; Hannah Arendt; Política; Organizações contra-hegemônicas

This paper presents a theoretical essay which aims to situate a framework able to address organizations that, established in a social way as collective political subjects, present themselves as alternatives. One is based upon Hannah Arendt’s thought, according to whom politics is the action which seeks agreements, joint actions, a reflection of the plural condition of man, and an end in itself. Thus, taking this perspective as a foundation, one tried to demonstrate that, in the same way how the capitalist system crystallizes political forgetfulness in modern times, the hegemonic organizing model and the traditional theoretical approach of organizational studies (reflections of the capital system) are tools for depoliticization and social domination, as they legitimize the needs for production, accumulation, and regulation in contemporary society. In this context, one thinks of counter-hegemonic organizations as a possibility for recovering politics with regard to its agonistic purposes. In these organizations, the groups and small moving communities represent major possibilities of political spaces for the foundation, resistance, civility, and disclosure of men as agents, practicing the categories proposed by Arendt: identity, plurality, and ability to start something new.