The public and the private in the political speech of Hannah Arendt

Abstract

We currently happenned to see a strong separation from men to women reinforcing the dichotomical and hierarchical world view; in a time when it is also produced an interpretation of the private-public domains —as Hannah Arendt holds— where the private domain is invalidated. By facingthis situation we hold a critic of the identification over the private and the public for men’s and women’s space, respectively; and of the conceptual hierarchy, based on this identification, legitimates the sexual inequalities. In doing so, we keep the critic of a position shared by traditionalistic and feministic theories: the conceptual hierarchy determining a superior value to the public domain in front of the private dimension, giving as a result the untouched excluding designation of both spheres.