THE HANNA ARENDT’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE THEORY IN THE WORK THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM

Abstract

The Theory of the State, part of political philosophy, performs as the bridge between this premise and the constitutional law-based norm, product of its connection – from its inception to its promulgation, theme analyzed and studied in Law School. As a typical characteristic of all philosophy, the reflection lies on long-standing questions, deep in scope and with the highest degree of generality, resulting in endless answers, relative and insufficient, always. Hanna Arendt’s work “The origins of totalitarianism” was analyzed and studied in search of some answers to the next subject matter: the offshoot of the dramatic structural crisis accelerated at the end/beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries – respectively; the totalitarianism, described by Salvador Ginés in the prologue as “a regime different from any previous dictatorship and despotism, is the only “truly new regime of the modern era.”