Cidades visíveis : as formas do político no pensamento de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the understanding of the city that we might find or glimpse in Arendt's writings. By turning to the author's analyses of the Athenian polis, the Roman civitas, and the American republic – in addition to the autonomous and egalitarian spaces that emerged during modern revolutions – we seek to demonstrate the hypothesis that cities would emerge, in Arendtian thought, as forms under which the political is configured and structured in time and space. Thus, it is about attempting to outline, from the conceptual framework that Hannah Arendt mobilizes and redefines when focusing on these visible, concrete, and real cities, a certain way of understanding cities, politically organized communities, or even the "space- times" that find their origin and the possibility of their conservation in common action.