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Polityczność jako obietnica nowego świata myśl polityczna Hannah Arendt
Politics as the promise of a new world political thought Hannah Arendt

Author(s): Jolanta Sawicka
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political Theory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers a view on Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the political, and hence of the factors (structural rather than historical) that destroy true politics and human dignity. Her interpretation of a mass society is discussed as the result of confusing private and public spheres. In its fully-fledged form this results in totalitarian movements, which homogenise individuals thereby corrupting the political dimension of the common world. The author attempts to explain this process.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: XXIII
  • Page Range: 135-147
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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