Autonomia ou dignidade?: ação, instrumentalização e mundo comum no pensamento de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The object of this research is to analyze the notion of autonomy of the political, in the thought of Hannah Arendt, in view of her criticism to the instrumentalization of action and taking into account his concern with the responsibility and care for the world. Our intention is to explore a tendency of read that allows us to mitigate the anti-instrumentalism apparent from conception of the political of the author's, and thereby, reconsider those who are the limits of political action postulated by her. In contrast to traditional readings that realize in his thought an unbridgeable gulf between the private, social and public spheres and a subsequent substantiation of appropriate issues to the collective debate and political action objects, we suggest that Arendt remains relatively open the boundaries of public space and undefined content of the action. Thus, is questionable the claim that the author banned from public discussion, the socioeconomic issues or seals to political action any possibility of transforming of the social reality, once that the true limits of action for her, are the plurality and freedom that support the dignity of the common world that home and links the mens each other. If what is at the center of concern of the political is the world, urges both preserve it of human hubris, as transform it by the inclusion of new political actors.