Hannah Arendt: some questions about dark times

Abstract

In this presentation we are interested in the problem that Hannah Arendt poses in the “Preface” to Men in Dark Times: the relationship between the light and the darkness of the political sphere and the pernicious effects of what the author calls “credibility gaps”, this last expression will be established by reflections on our present. In this sense, we present a reflection on the light and darkness of the public sphere around what can be considered a constant in our countries: the dissemination of lies in politics, the distortion of some facts, the falsification of information as common currency, all that series of circumstances that produce a darkening of the public, in Arendtian terms a breach, a credibility gap.