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Arendt and the politics of theory and practice: Beyond ivory towers and philosopher-kings
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This paper draws on Hannah Arendt’s political thought to question the relationship between
theory and practice in psychology and the public role of psychologists. One of Arendt’s main
contributions to political theory was to underline the specificity of political action, and to
stress that politics should not be ruled by pure theoretical reason or reduced to the technical
management of social issues. Applied to psychology, a view of the relationship between theory
and practice that ignores this specificity may well lead to efficacious applications, but it has a
certain number of politically problematic consequences. These include the a priori disqualification
of opinions, a loss of common sense, the a priori definition of the world as a set of variables, and
the a priori definition of people as “material” to be shaped rather than as political actors. Such
consequences are problematic insofar as they can lead to the exclusion of people from the public
realm and undermine the very possibility of genuine political action. These points are illustrated
and discussed through examples drawn from psychoanalysis and experimental social psychology.
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Arendt, Hannah Acção política
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Sindic, D. (2013). Arendt and the politics of theory and practice: Beyond ivory towers and philosopher-kings. Theory & Psychology, first published on May 20, 2013 as doi:10.1177/0959354313486955