Arendtian diagnosis about modernity:

the deadline of politics and the management of life

Abstract

This text proposes to reflect, in the wake of Arendt, on the decline of politics in modernity in the face of its reduction to the administration of life and vital needs. To this end, we will discuss the "modern alienation of the world" fostered by the rise of work and life, and reflect on the reduction of politics to the administration of life in the face of the advent of the social and the victory of the animal laborans. It is assumed that examining such categories allows us to observe the sunset of politics in the modern era and its transformation into biopolitics, and, moreover, how this category goes against the author's political notion. For the methodology, we carried out a philosophical exegesis of the referenced works, especially Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition (1958).