| Abstract [eng] |
The dissertation aims to advance academic studies of Hannah Arendt by focusing on the relationship between politics and morality. Arendt’s political thought can be divided into two thematic, chronologically distinct parts. The first part is phenomenological-political, contemplating the nature and particularity of political experience. The second begins with the trial of Eichmann and reflections on evil, shifting focus to the inner, moral person. Arendt’s thought offers a unique way to rethink the significance of political action for moral subject and allows for the analysis of politics as a meaningful, non-instrumentalized human experience. Three directions for the development of Arendt’s studies are proposed: (1) Politics must be perceived as a field of human moral self-realization; (2) The political should be localized at points of overlap: between universality and particularity, between private and public. This corrects the dominant academic approach to Arendt’s idea of the political, which is understood through the distinction between the private and the public person; (3) The origins of the banality of evil are much deeper and are explained through more normative ideas of a person and worldliness. Thus, it cannot be reduced to depersonalized mechanics or shallowness. These ideas of a person and worldliness “unlock” Arendt’s very concept of politics. |
