Abstract

CROCHICK, José Leon. Authoritarian personality and anti-democratic personality: adherence to authoritarian regimes and totalitarian movements. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2023, vol.37, n.81, pp.1689-1718.  Epub Jan 24, 2024. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v37n81a2023-70306.

The purpose of this text is, based on the works of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, to highlight what may be providing, in our days, individual adherence to totalitarian movements and regimes. For this, at first, emphasis will be given to the differentiation made by Arendt, in Origins of Totalitarianism, between authoritarian regimes, such as fascism, and totalitarianism, which, as this author defends, characterized Nazism and Stalinism, to , then highlight historical changes from the end of the 19th century to the decades of the first half of the 20th century, according to those authors, which resulted in the isolation of individuals and the constitution of authoritarian and anti-democratic individuals, results due to the decline of authority, of tradition and of thought, the latter reduced to formal repetitions independent of content. Finally, it is proposed to explain some of the conditions that remain today, which allow different forms of violence expressed by authoritarian and anti-democratic individuals, conducive to totalitarian movements, fascist and formally democratic regimes.

Keywords : formation; totalitarianism; anti-democratic personality.

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