Estetyzacja polityki w ujęciu Hannah Arendt

• Authors: Marcin Moskalewicz

Title variants

EN

AESTHETIZATION OF POLITICS ACCORDING TO HANNAH ARENDT

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article reflects on the problem of aesthetization of politics in Hannah Arendt’s work. It starts with the reconstruction of Arendt’s concept of the human condition, with the intention of placing the political within it. Then, by exploring the theatrical metaphor of political life the author attempts to show in what sense can we say that the political and the aesthetical intertwine in Arendt’s thought. The author also discusses the reproach of the aesthetization of politics and its link to fascism, arguing that paying a closer attention to the distinction between creative and performative arts may help to avoid it. In conclusion, Arendt’s reading of Kant’s Critique of Judgment serves as a basis for a more sympathetic interpretation of her aesthetization of politics, in which the gap between the moral and the aesthetical is reduced.

Keywords

EN

ARENDT; AESTHETIZATION OF POLITICS; CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram
• Journal: Filo-Sofija
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 203-220

Contributors

author

Marcin Moskalewicz