Reform or Revolution? Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse in the 60s

Abstract

This article is centered on the debate on revolutionary violence between two significant intellectuals, Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt, who lived and thought during the 60s, as well as the repercussions of this debate in Brazil. While Marcuse returns to the Hegelian-Marxian tradition, Arendt rejects it, recuperating a significant part of the [não conheço a palavra “filão”] of liberal conservative thought and the conceptualization of politics of ancient Greece, which excludes all of those who belong to the realm of necessity