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Comment on Hannah Arendt’s conception of the ‘political’. (150 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 12 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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The tradition from Plato to Max Weber equates politics with rule: who commands and who obeys. Hannah Arendt (The Human Condition, 1958; Between Past and Future, 1961) breaks with it. The political is the space in which plural, equal persons act and speak together, and it is valued for the freedom it realises, not for…

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  • What the Political Is
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