Los orígenes del totalitarismo he Hannah Arendt y la manipulación de la legalidad: el desafío totalitario de la ley
The purpose of the present article is to analyze how law can be a States� instrument to suppress people�s freedom and achieve total domination. The study bases its arguments on Hannah Arendt`s conception of legality, which is well developed in her master book piece The Origins of Totalitarianism....
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Published: |
Fundación Iuris Tantum
2011
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4818639 |
| Source: | Revista Boliviana de Derecho, ISSN 2070-8157, Nº. 11, 2011, pags. 114-131 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags: Be the first to tag this record
|
| Summary: |
The purpose of the present article is to analyze how law can be a States� instrument to
suppress people�s freedom and achieve total domination. The study bases its arguments on Hannah Arendt`s
conception of legality, which is well developed in her master book piece The Origins of Totalitarianism.
With this book, Arendt started studying the evil like a political problem, thought the actions done by the
regimes of Hitler and Stalin, nonetheless the obvious ideological differences between these two men, it
must be said that both supported their power on terror, ideological fiction and manipulation of legality
with the aim of criminalizing and punishing innocent people. Jewish, gyps, homosexuals, intellectuals,
countrymen, wealthy people, etc, just to make a reference, they were murdered once those regimes
overtook power.
The totalitarian States in contrast with the tyrannies, apart from legality, totalitarian States build a
juridical structure to legitimize their power. Moreover, they just don�t defiance legality, but also create
an appearance of it. The Totalitarian governments follow the nature and historic laws, which emanates
positives laws; it�s for this reason that we approach the concept of totalitarian illegality, keyed to represent
how the totalitarian states challenge the positive law. |
|---|