Arendt on Hobbes as the true philosopher of the bourgeoisie

Authors

  • Adriano Correia Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiania, GO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2015v12n1p147

Abstract

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, when examine the elements and origins of total domination, Hannah Arendt devotes special attention to the political emancipation of the bourgeoisie. For Arendt imperialism is the truth of the bourgeois understanding of politics, according to which politics should not be more than a well-organized police force. The truth of bourgeois politics is the reduction of politics to mere force. Our purpose is to reconstruct this movement from the vantage point of arendtian appropriation of Hobbes, "the true philosopher of the bourgeoisie."

 

Author Biography

Adriano Correia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiania, GO

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Realizou estágio durante o doutorado na Universidade Nova de Lisboa, com bolsa da Fapesp. Professor de filosofia da Universidade Federal de Goiás desde 2006. Atuou como pesquisador visitante na Freie Universität Berlin em 2011, com bolsa CAPES/DAAD. Desenvolve pesquisas nas áreas de filosofia política, ética, história da filosofia, filosofia do direito e estética.

Published

2015-07-08

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