Hannah Arendt e a crise da modernidade: senso comum e educação.

Abstract

In this study we present, having the work of Hannah Arendt as basis, a reading of the crisis of Modernity, which is configured in the gap between the past and the future and translates itself into the shattering of the tradition. Among the developments of the new conditions in this context are the decline of the common sense and the crisis in education. Common sense imbues us with an intersubjective existence, affects us with the impulse of life and refers to the use of the Latin term sensus communis, as a common meaning, which does not operate with concepts but in the dimension of a sense common to what is universally communicable. And it becomes manifest in the difficult task of judging in the absence of general criteria preconceived and validated by past experience. Understanding the crisis of Modernity, which takes its own form in Education, requires us to think about the meaning of the transformations that shaped the twentieth century. By thematicalizing an approach, marked by the constant tension between the frontiers of politics and education, we reflect on our capacity to take responsibility for the world, from the introduction of the new generations onward.