Boldness in the political one. About a grocer in Praga, American senators, Whistleblowers and a wagon siciliana

Authors

  • Wolfgang Heuer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v41i0.4633

Keywords:

coragem civil, ditadura, democracia, civil boldness, dictatorship, democracy

Abstract

In this article intends to discuss, under the inspiration of Hannah Arendt, for who, act politician requires boldness, the own concept of boldness in the political one. From three examples concretes, of the resistance to the dictatorship; of the not conformism of some politicians under a democracy; and of the political organization against crime organized, identify himself actions in the public sphere that created or recreated the space of the liberty and of the divergence and that occurs not of a way it recognized, but in the act even of do the unexpected.

How to Cite

Heuer, W. (2004). Boldness in the political one. About a grocer in Praga, American senators, Whistleblowers and a wagon siciliana. História: Questões E Debates, 41(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v41i0.4633

Issue

Section

Dossiê: Sociedade e Culturas Mediterrâneas