Victor Frohlich Cortez

This project proposes a close examination of two central themes in Hannah Arendt’s work — her critique of western tradition, especially the western tradition of political and philosophical thought —, aiming towards two main objectives. First, it aims to deepen the understanding of the intrinsic relation between these two themes, apparently one of the foundations of the arendtian thought and the axis articulating a myriad of crucial themes in her work — totalitarianism, the Nation-state crisis, council system, acting in concert, natality, participation, etc. Second, the development of such deepening seems to indicate some dilemmas: if not contradictions, at the very least ambiguities between such an anti-traditional plurality and other aspects of Arendt’s work, such as her strict frontier between social and political and her logocentric conception, potentially excludent, of political action. We believe that these dilemmas or short-circuits could be better understood both with the support of the specialized bibliography on her work and with the aid of contemporary feminist authors — the two main interfaces we intend to accomplish.