A educação e resistência aos tempos sombrios: reflexões a partir de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This research analyzes, based on Hannah Arendt's thinking, the conception of education and the concept of organized lying. Hannah Arendt, a Jewish thinker, witnessed dark times of totalitarian rule in Germany in the mid-twentieth century. With totalitarianism the lie invaded public space in an organized manner, through mass propaganda aimed at destroying the past, reality and politics. This work is based on the author,s texts such as “Truth and Politics” (1967) and “The Lie in Politics” (1971), which draw attention to the fact that, even after totalitarian regimes, the risks of manipulating reality and history they still lurk at contemporary political life. Although not political in character, according to Arendt's “Crisis in Education” (1958), education has the responsibility of presenting and narrating to children and young people a cultural and historical heritage of a common world. Indeed, the present paper seeks to argue that even in the face of all risks, education emerges as a counterpoint and resistance to organized lying.