GOD, HOMELAND, FAMILY AND FREEDOM - WHAT HANNAH ARENDT HAS TO SAY ABOUT BOLSONARISM AND THE COUPIST ACTS OF JANUARY 8?
Hannah Arendt; Bolsonarism; Totalitarianism; Structural Racism; Banality of Evil; Necropolitics
From the case study of the coup acts of January 8, 2023, this dissertation seeks to understand the phenomenon of Bolsonarism and in particular its intersections with Hannah Arendt's theory of totalitarianism and branched concepts of this as: loneliness and uprooting of individuals in contemporary societies; the totalitarian ideology; the horror; the banality of evil; the role of propaganda, lies and prophetic scientism; and the characteristics of totalitarian leadership. The research question that guides us is: can we explain, from the theoretical perspective of Hannah Arendt, Bolsonarismo as a totalitarian movement? However, because we are experiencing this reality in the global south, and not in a European country, it was up to us here to make a brief review of the peculiar characteristics of the Bolsonarist phenomenon that are present due to the historical and social roots of a colonized country, our structural racism, misogyny and necropolitics as elements that are also central to understanding this Brazilian social, historical and political phenomenon.