Notas sobre a questão da persuasão em Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The central theme of this article remains around persuasion and how it appears in the political thought of Hannah Arendt. Our purpose is to show the fecundity and the limits of this topic concerning the sphere of human affairs. We believe that an investigation about Arendt's nuances of persuasion involves two different directions, and for that we will assume two lines of thought that will allow us to step into this debate. Therefore, we will analyze the arendtian perspective as far as persuasion is concerned. On the one hand there is the theme appearance in the recovery of the experience of the Greek polis, and on the other hand its acknowledgement by the report of Adolf Eichmann’s trial. We intend to explore how the issue of persuasion is stated in a contrasting way in arendtian thought. The work will be elucidated through specific considerations regarding persuasion's presence in two spaces of a public nature, which are the Greek agora and the court.