TECHNOLOGY, POLITICS AND MODERNITY

Abstract

The article analyzes the relations between technology and politics in the modern age having as theoretical background the Hannah Arendt’s diagnosis critical of modernity and its mainly implication: the alienation of man facing the common and human world. The paper inquires the origins, the unfolding and the crisis of technoscientific modernity. It evidences how our traditional philosophical presuppositions have been challenged, how the classics antinomies and conceptual limits, with which tradition used to understand our active life, have being dissolved, such as: nature and history, human and inhuman, subject and object, work e action, science and technology, means and ends, autonomy body, etc.