Consumption as a reality principle: the hegemony of animal laborans in today's society from an Arendtian perspective

Abstract

This paper aims to present the thoughts of Hannah Arendt regarded to the modernity and to the advent of society, with the growing domain of animal laborans. For this, we seek to explore the key concepts of the author in the transformations that have occurred in the human condition, in the mode in which the men fit the demands of the environment. Arendt, as political theorist, notes these changes from the Greek polis, ideal space in which the speech was the most important activity of the citizen, but it also gave way to the philosophy, and the conception of alienated truth of the political arena. The consequence of this alienation is the isolation of human being, and that keeps away of the participation of the public domain and, therefore, the state of freedom. So, unable to communicate, submits to the guidance of totalitarian ideologies and the loss of the sense of your existence.