Crisis de la modernidad. el escenario del siglo XX

Abstract

Hannah Arendt identifies the end of modernity with the emergence of the totalitarian systems. They represent the failure of a dangerous life style, that of the animal laborans, in which modernity crystallizes, and which leads to the ruin of the public sphere. Tota-litarianism is a consequence of the loss of meaning that fermented in the forgetting of political action, during the transition from the 17th to the 19th century, with the restoration of a metaphysical thinking interested in sacrificing the weakness of meaning that is born out of action to an interpretation of History as a totality well built by Reason.