POLITICAL FREEDOM AND REPRESENTATION: ELEMENTS FOR UNDERSTANDING REPUBLICANISM IN HANNAH ARENDT´S WORK

Abstract

The political thought of Hannah Arendt develops through a membership on her part to sustained republicanism by the experience of political freedom in indoor public spaces. These spaces, once conceived as spontaneous manifestation of political freedom, are established using joint words and actions based on the daily lives of people in them are involved. It is a kind of freedom that is similar to that experienced by the ancient polis of the Greeks. We are interested in demonstrating that the thinker analyzes, in good measure, as the preservation of political freedom is presented as a relevant factor for the treasure of revolutions does not become a lost purpose. From there, we see that you can not understand the republicanism of the configuration according to the thought of Arendt, without permanently in your pulse inside the experience of political freedom, which is opposed to the institutional political representation conceived in modernity through parliaments.