Factual truth and the storyteller in Hannah Arendt: reflections on the philosopher’s political action

• Autor(a) principal: Castelo Branco, Judikael
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Argumentos : Revista de Filosofia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/argumentos/article/view/81430
• topic: Hannah Arendt. História. Mundo concentracionário. Contador de estórias. Verdade factual.; Hannah Arendt. History. Concentrationary world. Storyteller. Factual truth.

This article articulates the figure of the storyteller and the concept of factual truth to reflect on elements of Hannah Arendt’s philosophy that are also important for understanding our political situation. In it, Arendt's thought is seen as tributary to history and disposed to an alternative model of thinking: narrative thinking. Two ideas that revolve around the figure of the storyteller and the concept of factual truth. The goal of this research is, then, to take up again Arendt's reflection on factual truth in order to understand our own context, marked by negationism and even by ideas such as “post-truth”. The choice of the author is not fortuitous, but is justified by the approach in which truth is not taken as an epistemological, neutral issue. To this end, we divide our text into four parts. In the first, we resume essential aspects of the relation between Arendtian thought and history. In the second, the same question is seen from the point of view of the questioning of the adequate way to respond to the “imperative of testimony” about the concentrationary experience. In the third, we turn to the figure of the storyteller and “narrative thinking” as an alternative to the Archimedean point of view. Finally, we find the notion of factual truth that, in fact, underpins all previous moments.