The limits of politics in Hannah Arendt
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2010.742n1101Keywords:
Arendt, action, politics, sociability, discourse, remembrance, eventAbstract
The political in H. Arendt is not one sphere of activity amongst others; it constitutes the horizon in which the drama of human action develops. Its essential coordinates are: principles, power, and institutions. Its function is to set limits to the invading violence of the world, interpreted not so much as a war of some against others, but as a war against the fact that all human things are finite. The reason that institutes politics is self-affirmation by means of the creation of a shared world. This concept is problematic because of the lack of content and objective possibilities of a kind of sociability different to political sociability per se, and because it burdens the political with an excessive signification: it has to deal with liberation from radical contingency and from any last meaning.
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2010-04-30
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Sorrentino, S. (2010). The limits of politics in Hannah Arendt. Arbor, 186(742), 201–210. https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2010.742n1101
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