Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Political, The Recovery of Hope

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Abstract:This article contends that Hannah Arendt's understanding of the political as the space of appearance of many unique and distinct individuals is particularly instructive for our time. With a political reality that has become increasingly antagonistic, her work urges us to recover the political as the space where many interact in words and deeds, bringing visibility and reality to such plurality. Arendt teaches that power lies in the coming together of people. By creating spaces where people interact in words and deeds, acknowledging and sharing their differences, politics comes alive and the new is possible.