Sob a máscara do público e do privado: análise de uma dicotomia moderna

Abstract

In this dissertation we will examine the public-private dichotomy as to demonstrate the necessity of a new conceptual view over these areas of action which have been properly limited by the ascendancy of the bourgeois in modernity. Firstly, based on The Human Condition of Hannah Arendt, we will evaluate the limitations and gaps of the author s male perspective, who rescues the Greek s concept of action and uses it as basis for her political thesis against the failure of the moderns to implement public life; then, based on The Sexual Contract of Carole Pateman, the author s counter-speech to patriarchycapitalism which reveals the existence of the sexual contract under the social contract will be examined. Finally, we will seek to reflect on the antinomies of the modern project, namely the paradigm of modern science and the romantic movement, in order to understand the injunctions relating to private and public life that in modernity correspond to the bourgeois social order. As the distinction between public and private is ideological, on its basis it establishes the hierarchical relationships between the sexes in accordance to a polarized vision and kept by the male order with capitalism.