Review article

Apories on the Meaning of Politics in Work of Hannah Arendt

Željko Senković orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-6130 ; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Philosophy, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Specificity of present time is “the end of political”, where the term ‘democracy’ still represents the main collective term for making an illusion of false possibilities. Hannah Arendt is taken here as the author whose term ‘action’ represents what people in a public field could really be. Regarding that, her analysis about how did reduction of political relationship to the dynasty relationship happened, from the beginnings of philosophy of politics, is very important. Also, her understanding of the relevance of (political) freedom is in opposition with traditional philosophical restriction of freedom to ‘human inside’.

Keywords

democracy; polis; political life; Hannah Arendt; action; freedom

Hrčak ID:

72738

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72738

Publication date:

25.7.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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