Alienation and subjectivism

the resignation of renascentist love for the world

Abstract

Hannah Arendt, in the chapter VI of The human condition, while understanding the active life in the context of the transformations effected by modernity, especially those related to the glorification of the sciences as an attempt to establish a new worldview in which the affairs of the public domain are debased, affirms that Renaissance love for Earth and the world was the first victim of the process of alienation of modern man. In her conception, the modern era not only did not give importance to the efforts of civic humanists in favor of the valorization of active life and the establishment of civic principles that would mark for centuries the demands of institution of the politics, but also conceived other conditions that cooled what had been built by the action men of Renaissance republicanism. In this text, we will discuss what the process of the alienation of man in the modern era meant, what its implications for the public world are, and what relation that event holds with a way of life that had been created by the action men  of the Renaissance.