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Legge della pluralità o armonia del potere? Annotazioni su una possibilità di pensare Arendt contro Arendt
Menga, Ferdinando G.
2008
Abstract
In this article I intend to trace and discuss a contradiction, which – I believe – lies in Arendt’s
thought: the one between her concept of plurality and her concept of power. In a
more specific way, I will argue that Arendt, by admitting only an intransitive understanding
of power, betrays her vision of plurality, as this one cannot exclude a transitive conception
of power.
Furthermore, I will try to detect how this same contradiction reflects itself in another
topical place of Arendt’s thought, i.e. her critical opposition to political representation.
Here the direction of my arguing can be expressed by a simple question: isn’t maybe representation
a much more adequate way to correspond plurality than Arendt’s tendency to
acclaim an aggregative and quasi-organic collective participation?
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
X (2008) 1
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Ferdinando G. Menga, "Legge della pluralità o armonia del potere? Annotazioni su una possibilità di pensare Arendt contro Arendt", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, X (2008) 1, pp. 116-139.
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