Política, poder e totalitarismo: uma análise na perspectiva de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the concept of policy approaches from Hannah Arendt. The guiding question of the research is to know what is the purpose of the policy? For the Greeks the policy is understood as the space action among equals who deliberate about the common life of the polis in equal conditions regarding the power of speech and decision. Not conceivable, therefore no expression of violence or veto the action and discourse of the other. Arendt (2001a) agrees and teaches that the policy has the purpose of conducting the business of the polis from the ability of free men to persuade the word. Importantly, the debate around the policy today features protototalitárias guard in that individuals increasingly isolate themselves and assume a stance of disengagement with public affairs and policy distance, providing fertile ground for the emergence of governments guided violence and arbitrariness. Here there is no recipe or canon points around the policy, given that its core should be the debate between the men and women who are interested in public affairs, but the underlying logic of this debate the preservation of life, the preservation of existing human.