Totalitarianism, experience and metaphor in Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The impotence of the political traditional models to explain the phenomenon of the totalitarianism as a singular phenomenon led Arendt to break with the metaphysical tradition of the thought, with what, besides reproducing the aporias of the critical thinkers of the metaphysics, she tackled a search of new ways for a political not metaphysical, wouldn't be determined, thought, without giving up showing positively the space of the politics as the privileged area of the human experience. This work points at the importance of the metaphor as the place where the language, acting in an oblique form, presents spaces of human experience that transcend the determinant area of the logic and the metaphysics, and the metaphor would be the pertinent resource for the exploration of the problem of the political spaces among men.