Antropología política hegemónica y post-hegemónicael diálogo de Hannah Arendt con el trascendentalismo norteamericano en torno a la desobediencia civil

Abstract

This paper aims at setting up a post-hegemonic reading of the concept of power supported by Hannah Arendt and the North American Transcendentalism (Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman). I shall tackle the image of nature that authors as Arendt, Emerson and Thoreau unfold and I shall enquire its presence as enigmatic force in Terrence Malick’s cinematography. I will centrally focus on the analysis that civil disobedience undergoes in Arendt and Thoreau, as an indispensable critique of the Nation-State, so that this point of view will appear as a womb of new political forms and as embodiment of a not solidified conception of legality. Such an approach entails to separate the phenomenon of civil disobedience from every direct theological connection, as source of a value allegedly higher than any discursive immanence, in order to link rather this phenomenon with a performative appraisal of action and of the public sphere making process, which is nearer to claims regarding political subjection raised by J. Butler, E. Laclau or B. Arditi.