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Insegurança e medo na vida urbana
Insecurity and fear in urban life
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Abstract This article aims to offer some notes related to the question of the insecurity and fear in urban life. Constitutive condition of many, if not all, contemporary societies, fear and insecurity in urban space, or, in public space, are here analized from two thinkers. The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman is ... view more
This article aims to offer some notes related to the question of the insecurity and fear in urban life. Constitutive condition of many, if not all, contemporary societies, fear and insecurity in urban space, or, in public space, are here analized from two thinkers. The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman is present insofar as he considers the fear a constitutive aspect on two life dimensions : on the fragility and the human contingence towards nature, and on the society itself, constituted by rules and norms. The philosopher Giorgio Agamben is here emphasized on two oportunities. The first, when showing the impossibility of experiences made by human on the current societies context. The second when noting contemporary societies as following the concentration camp paradigm. Starting with these two authors, is found the necessity of rescue the public experience, resignify the economy and revalue the political economy.... view less
Keywords
Bauman, Z.; anxiety; Zeitgeist; experience; concentration camp; society
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
contemporaneity
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 280-292
Journal
Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 22 (2022) 2
ISSN
2178-1036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed