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Hannah Arendt's Radical Politics: Beyond Actually Existing Democracies, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Hannah Arendt's Radical Politics: Beyond Actually Existing Democracies, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
The present text investigates Arendt’s conception of the political underlying her theoretical reconstruction of the Greek polis. My main argument is that Arendt’s return to the past aims at questioning the political alternatives offered by many contemporary currents of political liberalism, which tend to reduce the political to the domain of the juridical. Distinctively, I think that Arendt outlines a radical conception of democracy that is to be situated beyond the model of our actually existing democracies. In order to show that Arendt’s aim was not that of elaborating a theoretical normative and utopian conception of the political, far away …
Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics And The Problem Of Violence: From Animal Laborans To Homo Sacer, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics And The Problem Of Violence: From Animal Laborans To Homo Sacer, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
In his work Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben affirms that Arendt and Foucault were the contemporary political theorists that best understood the modern dramatic political shifts that culminate in the Nazi and Stalinist extermination camps. This text explores this insight and proposes to establish an Arendtian diagnosis of the present under the paradigm of biopolitics, defined as the unifying character of different contemporary violent phenomena such as: preventive and humanitarian wars; fanatical suicidal terrorist attacks aiming at the complete annihilation of its opponents; the utilization of chemical and bacteriological mass destructive weapons by States against civilian …
Hannah Arendt E A Exemplaridade Subversiva: Por Uma Ética Pós-Metafísica, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Hannah Arendt E A Exemplaridade Subversiva: Por Uma Ética Pós-Metafísica, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
Arendt redefines the meaning of ethics and politics in a post-metaphysical theoretical key, disrupting both teleological and prescriptive ties that have traditionally bound Western philosophical thinking about political action and ethical behavior. In this project, Arendt stresses the mode of being of subversive exemplarity, i.e., the capacity to publicly appear as resistant against political violence, even when this appearance is merely passive and silently. To demonstrate the post-metaphysical ethical-political impact of the subversive exemplarity, I analyze some texts in which Arendt highlights the project of a negative and reflexive ethics, one that does not determine how to act, but what …
Heidegger And The Historical-Political Character Of The Artwork, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Heidegger And The Historical-Political Character Of The Artwork, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
The text discusses the historial-political character attributed by Heidegger to the artwork in his 1936 essay “The origin of the work of art”. The main argument is that Heidegger’s analysis of the artwork is simultaneously an inquiry into the possibility of a new beginning in history by means of a genuine appropriation of history, a subject-matter that was altogether absent during the project of fundamental ontology. The essay on the artwork is considered as a first step in Heidegger’s formulation of his later thesis concerning Western history as the history of Being. Incidentally, this shift in Heidegger’s understanding of history …
Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
This article intends to theoretically think with Michael Winterbotton’s movies 'In this world' (2002), 'Code 46' (2003) and 'The road to Guantanamo' (2006). These movies are interpreted as ‘texts’ which interrogate main dilemmas of contemporary and near future politics, such as: illegal immigration, illegal detention and biopolitical control. In order to do so, Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as ‘biopolitics’ and ‘state of exception’ constitute main theoretical references since they illuminate the chocking powerfulness of Winterbotton’s images. The common feature of both Winterbotton’s movies and Agamben's concept of biopolitics relates to the unstable frontier that politically and economically separates bare life …