The meaning of political action in Hannah Arendt
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https://doi.org/10.20873/rpv6n2-10Abstract
This paper presents the main distinctions made by Arendt around the concept of action, as well as debates the criticisms regarding the irrelevance of the concept of action, and its distancing from real politics. The criticism of the concept of political action discussed in the article came from the authors Jürgen Habermas and Martin Jay, the first accusing Arendt of equating strategic action with instrumental action, and therefore placing it outside the political sphere, the second author goes further and accuses Arendt to devise such a heroic conception of action that would share one of the most sinister faces of totalitarianism, its indifference to utilitarian considerations. However, such interpretations do not agree with Arendt’s texts. In them, she does not discard elements of intentionality and causality present in any human action.
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