WITH ARENDT AND AGAINST ARENDT: JUDGING HER JUDGMENT ON RACIAL INTEGRATION IN THE UNITED SATES DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Authors

  • Mario Alfredo Hernández Sánchez Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)-Iztapalapa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v6i12.142

Keywords:

Discrimination, equality, political judgment, public sphere, democracy

Abstract

This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s political judgment on racial integration in the United States during the Twentieth Century. According to Arendt, discrimination is an issue that belongs to the social realm, not to the political one. Personal features that shape individuals –race, for example– must be left outside the political debate, as they confer communitarian identity. On the contrary, Arendt wanted politics to be defined in terms of a discussion among individuals who claim specific positions. As we can se, Arendt´s judgment on discrimination is conditioned by her rigorous separation between the social and the political realms.

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Author Biography

Mario Alfredo Hernández Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)-Iztapalapa

Es Maestro en Humanidades, con especialidad en Filosofía Política, por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)-Iztapalapa. Es coautor de Cultura de la legalidad en Tabasco (Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco, 2007) y Formación cívica y ética II (Nuevo México, 2008). Entre sus publicaciones destacan: “Entre la herejía y la tribu: Dilemas políticos de una edad sin inocencia” (Bien Común, 2006); “Diálogo entre la muerte y la doncella” (Metapolítica, 2008) y “A New Approach on the Long-Standing Problem of Evil” (Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2008).

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Published

2009-08-16

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Vol. 6 No. 12 (2009): diciembre

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