Democracia, direito e poder comunicativo: Arendt contra Marx

• Main Author: Yara Frateschi
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2010-09-01
• Series: DoisPontos
• Subjects: Arendt; Marx; Work; Action; Right
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/doispontos/article/view/20176/13346

Important scholars are used to emphasizing the dialogue between Arendtand Heidegger when seeking sources of Arendtian political thinking. Without rejecting the relevance of Heidegger, the central idea behind my interpretation is that Arendt asks and answers the fundamental question of her political philosophy by establishing a dialogue, above all, with Marx. This article aims at highlighting the fact that it is by refusing the theory of classes and its unraveling in the Marxist utopia that she created the notion of “natality”, on which she baseshuman plurality. And that it is by refuting the definition of man as animal laborans that she finds man’s specificity in his capacity for action and communication.