Hannah Arendt: el pensar en el espacio político y en la cultura

Resumen

Thinking and culture are linked intimately in Arendt’s theory because they are both in the public sphere. The absence of thinking makes the agents acting in a banal way. Thinking guides to exchange different opinions through constructed language by various speakers. This shows the necessary plurality required in the politic and cultural space, that is, the public space. Lack of thinking expresses drowsiness in front of the world and gives rise to overcrowding and causes unanimity instead of generating a politic skill which directs people towards the common world, to the world-with the- others. Culture and art should be long-lasting, in public sphere things are neither consumed nor used, because they are eternal, immortal. However, it seems that philistinism and searching for immediate utility has imposed on a categorical way through the mass society.