Totalitarianism, human rights and bioplytics

In the footsteps of Hannah Arendt

Abstract

How to believe in the effectiveness of the human rights, after we had seen, bewildered, the transformation of man in just an animal, in the fields of death of the totalitarian governments? How to appeal to the declaration of human rights which have in its clauses the right to the life and the announcement of the equality for all, when we come across the treat of human being in its more abstract nakedness? With this character of life disposability, the beddings of the human rights must be rethought, as the right to life, said sacred and inalienable, cannot support the “real man”, which, in modernity, suffered with the disposability and superfluity, demonstrating that the man protected by the human rights is an abstraction. Our analysis on the totalitarian phenomenon and the crisis of human rights, has as presuposition the enlightening reflections of Hannah Arendt in the third part of The origins of totalitarianism (1951), and the comments of Giorgio Agamben, in his book Homo sacer I: the sovereign power and the naked life (1995).