Hannah Arendt and political philosophy in the atomic age
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Hannah Arendt. Atom Bomb. Nuclear science. Consumers’ Society. Process.Abstract
The political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is worldly known as one the main theoreticists on the phenomenon of totalitarianism. However, there is another object which is perhaps as important in terms of the construction of her thought, viz. not only the atom bomb more specifically, but more generally the issue of nuclear science. In this sense, the present paper seeks to investigate I) the philosophical reception to the launching of the first atom bombs; II) the arendtian interpretation of the matters advanced above and this in order to III) throw some light on our present situation in what concerns precisely the issues related to te dominion of nuclear technology.
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