Thinking about the problems of democracy from Hannah Arendt

Fontes, Paulo Vitorino

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Thinking about the problems of democracy from Hannah Arendt

2021-06-30Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Fontes, Paulo Vitorino
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-27T16:15:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-27T16:15:20Z
dc.date.issued	2021-06-30
dc.date.updated	2022-10-23T15:31:44Z
dc.description.abstract	In recent decades we have witnessed the emptying of the ideal of participatory democracy. If, on the one hand, we go back to the original formulations of the 1960s and 1970s, we see that these indicated the need to expand the spaces of collective democratic management in daily life, particularly in the workplace. But, on the other hand, the models of the following decades accepted the circumscription of democratic practices to the state. In a parallel movement, the critique of representative institutions and the political passivity they promote was set aside in favour of a perception in which the difference between participation and representation is practically annulled. With this, the radicality of the critique of the participation deficit in liberal democracies is lost. In the context of post-modernity, in which the ailments of modernity have not been healed, together with the generalised lack of interest in public affairs, especially among the younger generations, there is an urgent need to revitalise sleeping democracies, mostly in the Western world. Our work is built on Hannah Arendt's thought, committed to rehabilitating the space of politics, and on the dialogue with other authors, but also on the investigation of psychoanalytic contributions, following the tradition of German critical theory, in the search for antidotes to the dangers that Western democracies face, more specifically the right-wing populist escalation and the disintegrating threat of an instrumental rationality that is colonising all domains of our existence. It becomes pertinent, as an objective for our work, to revisit Arendt's great questions and, based on existing scientific knowledge, to imagine and conceptualise new forms of inclusion and social and political participation that may renew the democratic system. Here, we can only enunciate this project, which will be developed in a broader research context. [da Introdução]	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Fontes, P. (2021). Thinking about the problems of democracy from Hannah Arendt. "Academia Letters", Article 1250. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL1250.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.20935/al1250	pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn	2771-9359
dc.identifier.slug	cv-prod-3036930
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6417
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Academia	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)	pt_PT
dc.subject	Direitos Humanos	pt_PT
dc.subject	Democracia	pt_PT
dc.subject	Democracy	en
dc.subject	Human Rights	en
dc.title	Thinking about the problems of democracy from Hannah Arendt	en
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.title	Academia Letters	pt_PT
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