Banca de DEFESA: MARCUS GABRIEL MIRANDA SANTOS

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STUDENT : MARCUS GABRIEL MIRANDA SANTOS
DATE: 07/05/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/sala/leonardo-jorge-da-hora-pereira
TITLE:

The Political Ontology of Hannah Arendt

KEY WORDS:

Political ontology; Hannah Arendt; Phenomenology; Existentialism; Hermeneutics; Democracy; Martin Heidegger; Karl Jaspers; Edmund Husserl; Maurice Merleau-Ponty

PAGES: 441
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUMMARY:

Seeking a more global as well as historical and philosophically situated understanding of the
thought of the German philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, this thesis investigates
the paths through which the author undertakes in her work, in a consistent movement of critical
appropriation of the central theses that shape the contemporary philosophical traditions that
helped in making of her a thinker, a philosophical turn of great ontological consequences. We

have, therefore, as a general objective, to make explicit how Arendt, starting from the contem-
porary intersection between the phenomenological, existentialist and hermeneutic traditions,

conceives a fundamentally political ontology, inserting the category of plurality, central to her
thought, within philosophical thinking, so as to implode its traditional foundations. More than
a regional ontology of the political dimension of human existence, what Hannah Arendt puts

forward is a philosophy based on a notion of Being always constituted from plurality as a fun-
damental ontological condition of human existence. In this sense, we will try, from the outset,

to find the ontological and methodological core of Arendt's thought in its relationship with the

thought of authors such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Maurice Mer-
leau-Ponty, among others. Starting, then, from such a radical theoretical contextualization, we

will seek, centrally, first, to conceive the properly Arendtian way of phenomenologically des-
cribing the world that, in its daily actualization, human existence, so to speak, opens up for

itself. From there, taking as a touchstone the important Arendtian distinction between truth and
meaning, we will propose a systematizing interpretation of the core of Arendtian ontology
around the understanding of the structural articulations of the phenomenal world and the human
dynamics of meaning donation. Finally, an effort will be made to understand and bring to light,
in an indicative way, the deep relationships between this radically philosophical-ontological
scenario and the more well-known and widely studied, although with often divergent results,

thema of Arendtian political thought. In this process, will emerge the contours of a philosophi-
cal normativity, present in Arendt's thought will, that points to an understanding of democracy

as an ontologically grounded imperative of human existence.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2358689 - LEONARDO JORGE DA HORA PEREIRA
Interno - 1083320 - DANIEL TOURINHO PERES
Externa ao Programa - 1877538 - VANESSA SIEVERS DE ALMEIDA - UFBAExterno à Instituição - LUCAS BARRETO DIAS - IFCE
Externo à Instituição - PAULO EDUARDO BODZIAK JUNIOR - UFRN