Violência e poder em Hannah Arendt

Abstract

We investigated the concepts of power and violence in Hannah Arendt. This study gives us an understanding of modernity experiences and our present time, marked by political violence, often resulting in a devaluation of the action results of a Platonic philosophical matrix that equated in ancient classical command and obedience. In the first chapter, we investigated in the book Origins of Totalitarianism violence thatappears in politics, especially Anti-Semitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism. The decay of the action and the vacuum of power give opportunity to the emergence of a movement never before seen in politics. Through the ideology and terror the totalitarianism does not seek the despotic domain of men in a system in which men become superfluous. That is why we will investigate the link between power andviolence that can be structured and stored in a world composed of men with no trace of spontaneity. In Chapter II, we discuss the theory of action of the book The Human Condition. The conceptual distinction between violence and power emerges tighter and more explicit. It is a response to the superfluity of action identified in modernity, especially with the totalitarian regimes. In Chapter III we studied violence and powercoupled appeared in modernity, from the On Violence. Arendt criticizes the modern science and the notion of unlimited progress of humanity, the Marxism that affirms the necessity of violence in political and philosophical tradition. Violence is disqualified from its central policy even in his theory of revolution present in the book On Revolution. In it, Arendt relieves violence and power, showing that the foundation of policy is the constitution of liberty. We further the decoupling between power,violence and revolution is a typical phenomenon of modernity. In all chapters, our study leads us to the concept of power and violence.