Abstract

ANDRADE, Flávio Rovani de. Narrative and understanding in the educational writings of Hannah Arendt. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.04, pp.37-68. ISSN 0102-4698.

ABSTRACT In this article, we analyze the narrative and understanding aspects on the theme of education in the work of Hannah Arendt, particularly in the essay "The crisis in education", aiming at a comprehensive rooting of the text throughout the author's production. We begin by showing that this essay is an exercise of political thought. Then we move on to the analysis of the category of understanding, demonstrating that Arendt did not think supported on tradition, because it has been dismantled by modern ruptures, whose extreme case was the emergence of totalitarian governments, becoming thus a thought without supporters. We demonstrate that "understanding" is an important hermeneutic and epistemological concept, to the extent that it dimensions the author's phenomenological impulse, which at the same time takes the personal perspective of the author's work and points to the need for the thought to remain linked to factual problems. After that, we verify the narrative as a component present in all Hannah Arendt's work, particularly the narrative aspect of the educational writings.

Keywords : Understanding; Narrative; Essay; Education; Thought.

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