VIDA INSUSTENTÁVEL E RECONCILIAÇÃO DA NARRATIVA – ESPAÇO PÚBLICO COMO NATALIDADE METAFÓRICA EM HANNAH ARENDT

• Autor(a) principal: Assy, Bethania
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/15736
• topic: narrative; public space; Hannah Arendt; reconciliation; natality; judgment; narrativa; espaço público; reconciliação; natalidade; julgamento

How can the narrative of ourungrateful experiences, the facing of unbearablesufferings, bring hopefulness, love for our destines,and pride for who we have been in life, and a sortof reconciliation with the world, reconciliationwith the public space of appearance? This isexactly the kind of expectation Arendt assigns fornarrative. That we have a particular human abilityto recollect, to remember and retell our and others’stories belong to the major topics on HannahArendt’s writings on narrative and reconciliation.It has at least one crucial dimension this paper willdeal with. More closely related to the redemptivepower of narrative, we have the potential to betellers of our own stories, narrators of who we havebeen in life. Here imagination and recollectionhelp reconciliation towards our own past. Bytelling our own story, we may become theprotagonist of who we are and thereby, as anoutcome, we can reconcile ourselves with our lifeexperiences. The main question here is that to bethe storyteller of our own story is deeply connectedwith the possibility of a public reconciliation andour ability to judging. The reconciliation with ourstory here implies also reconciliation with thepublic space of appearance, namely by Arendt, theplural world of acting and speech.