Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt and totalitarismo
philosophical foundations and counterpoints
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https://doi.org/10.4013/con.2025.211.03Keywords:
Totalitarism, Phenomenology, Gnosticism.Abstract
It is tried, in this paper, to define and oppose Eric Voegelin´s and Hannah Arendt's theorizations about the totalitarian phenomenon. Besides the differences that are brought up by the simple presentation of both theories, the debate by letters between the authors conducts the analysis to a critique of the Arendtian intellectual standpoint by a Voegelinian prism, centered on the argument that Arendt, in its sui generis phenomenology, had the same theoretical flaws of the whole of the German academia criticized by Voegelin, specially noted in his opposition to Edmund Husserl.
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