The role of civil disobedience in non-totalitarian mass societies in Arendt

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  • Nathalia Rodrigues da Costa Universidade Estadual de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v24i2p13-28

Keywords:

Hannah Arendt, civil disobedience, mass society

Abstract

Margareth Canovan and Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato criticize Hannah Arendt's analysis of mass society. Such criticisms converge on a diagnosis: Arendt's analysis is influenced by her approach of Totalitarianism and this would have undermided her attention to the democratic potentials of contemporary democratic societies. On the opposite way, it is argued in this article that if we interpret the theme of mass society from the distinction between non-totalitarian mass society and totalitarian mass society, we see Arendt's attention to the democratic potentials of the non-totalitarian societies still massified, especially in their analysis of the movements of Civil Disobedience.

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Published

2019-12-17

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2019)

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The role of civil disobedience in non-totalitarian mass societies in Arendt. (2019). Cadernos De Filosofia Alemã: Crítica E Modernidade, 24(2), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v24i2p13-28