Hannah Arendt y la búsqueda del individuo en el estado-nación
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2010
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Abstract
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This text is a part of a work that aims to divulge the
legal elements contained in Hannah Arendt’s work.
Specifically, in The origins of totalitarianism, she
considers the modern nation/state as the institution in
which the elements that consolidate totalitarianism as
a sui generis government form, begin to appear. The
elevation of the nation/state and the power it is given
to provide the recognition, the rights and the liberties
to individuals, are evaluated by this author from the
philosophical and political points of view. This work,
however, also explores these concepts from a legal
perspective, in the theoretical re-construction of the
concept “individual” as a political subject. This is done
by the use of three models that provide enough elements to conceptualize and contextualize the history
of the ages in which the existence of the individual is
framed. Those models are: Historicist, located in the
Middle Ages, individualist, framed in the Modern Age
until the revolutions for rights that took place in the
XVlll century, and statist, developed from elements
taken from the individualist model. This path is traversed in order to evaluate the coherence and pertinence of Arendt’s asseverations from a legal perspective
and to make a critic to the modern nation-state, seen
from the totalitarian phenomenon.
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Individuo, Formas de gobierno, Estado nación, Totalitarismo, Hannah Arendt, Derecho, Corporación Universitaria Lasallista