THE FORMS OF ALIENATION FROM THE WORLD AND THE EXPERIENCE OF FRIENDSHIP AS RESISTANCE IN HANNAH ARENDT

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate the ways in which world alienation manifests itself in modernity and its respective relationships with the activities of the vita activa: labor, work, action. Each of the human activities whose function is to support, construct and constitute the world carries an ambiguity which, given the articulations and transfigurations undergone since modernity, ends up leading to a state of abandonment and uprooting from the world. The aim of this research is to understand loneliness not as a psychological state, but as a form of being-in-the-world that is specific to modernity. According to Arendt, such basic human experience is the breeding ground for totalitarian movements. As a resistance to loneliness, we evoke the experience of Arendtian friendship which, unlike intimate feelings, refers to the world, contributing to the strengthening of common sense and inviting responsibility and care for the common world and the Earth - the home and dwelling place that must survive the influx of the next generations.