Hannah Arendt and politics without compassion

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Ricardo Luiz de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2008v7n12p119

According to Hannah Arendt, politics in contemporary society have undergone a process of degradation whose origins are associated with the advent of totalitarianism. My goal here is to study how this association has unfolded, and to examine how Arendt envisions the relation between political crisis and the rise of the masses, two phenomena that in her view are intimately related. Arendt’s political thought excludes the possibility of compassion within power relations and differentiates the world of work from the political sphere, building a theory that is conservative and aristocratic in nature and elaborating what can be called a “politics wiithout compassion.” Keywords: modernity, politics, labor.