Hannah Arendt's interpretation of civil disobedience and the expansion of democracy

• Grant number: 19/15067-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): January 10, 2020
• Effective date (End): April 12, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Yara Adario Frateschi
• Grantee: Nathalia Rodrigues da Costa
• Supervisor: David Johnston
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Columbia University in the City of New York, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 18/00645-5 - The limits and possibilities of political action in mass society, BP.DR

Abstract

The aim of this project is to investigate the limits and possibilities of political action innon-totalitarian mass society based on Hannah Arendt's analysis of civil disobedience in Crisis of the Republic (1969). For such purpose, we are going to address Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato's criticism to Arendt's analysis of social movements in their work Civil Society and Political Theory (1995), since this criticism puts into question Arendt's hope of reviving the public freedom experience. (AU)