Banca de DEFESA: LUIS ANTONIO BARBOSA DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUIS ANTONIO BARBOSA DA SILVA
DATE: 16/12/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: PPGF
TITLE:

HANNAH ARENDT AND EXPLOITATION IN WORK:
REFLECTIONS ON THE EXISTENCE OF A LABOR COMMUNITY
ABSTRACT

KEY WORDS:

Work; Violence at work; Hannah Arendt; Human condition; Animal laborans; Political freedom.

PAGES: 168
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Ética
SUMMARY:

Work has increasingly revealed itself as a stage for multiple forms of violence. Accidents, illness, harassment, and discrimination are phenomena that have come to occupy a prominent position in the media. The place that should serve as a stage for personal fulfillment and human emancipation has instead become a setting of violence and oppression. Much has been written about violence in the world of labor, its causes, and its harmful effects on workers’ health. One may indeed find in work what is worst, but it is also possible to extract from it what is best in us. Work is a place in which the subject is revealed and where the potentialities of acting in concert come to light.

Our understanding is that Hannah Arendt’s thought offers significant insights for thinking about the world of work through the potentialities of the human being who labors in this privileged and plural space. Although, in Arendt’s view, modernity is marked by the triumph of the animal laborans and work has become merely a means of earning a living, starting from the premise that the human condition is a triad—composed of labor, work, and action—it is possible to believe that the workplace is not only the site of survival, but also a place for the realization of higher values, such as the ingenuity of homo faber and the potentialities of human actors.

In contrast to Marx’s thought, Arendt seeks to recover the dignity of politics, which disappears when Marx reduces human beings to animal laborans. Therefore, in light of these considerations, we aim to reflect on Arendt’s concept of labor in contrast with the diverse forms of human work present in the modern world, on the viability of political freedom within the work environment, and especially on the possibility that workers, in human intercourse and by assuming their plural human condition, may form political bodies, struggle for better living and working conditions, and confront all forms of violence that occur in the workplace.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2358689 - LEONARDO JORGE DA HORA PEREIRA
Externo ao Programa - 6950051 - PEDRO LINO DE CARVALHO JUNIOR - UFBAExterno à Instituição - PAULO EDUARDO BODZIAK JUNIOR - UFRN