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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 …