The reduction of human being to natural life

Authors

  • Kherlley Caxias Batista Barbosa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/rpv6n2-11

Abstract

The article discusses the issue of the reduction of human existence to natural life in Hannah Arendt's thought, analyzing the totalitarian practices of exclusion of stateless persons from the legal and political spheres and totalitarian domination in concentration camps, when totalitarian government operated the transformation of human life until reaching the annihilation of human freedom and producing an anthropological residue in which human beings were reduced to the elementarity of life.

Published

2021-12-30

How to Cite

Caxias Batista Barbosa, K. (2021). The reduction of human being to natural life. Perspectivas, 6(2), 190–199. https://doi.org/10.20873/rpv6n2-11

Issue

Section

Dossiê Hannah Arendt: "Pensar o que estamos fazendo"

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