Política, economía y ciencia en 'La condición humana' de Arendt

In her book The Human Condition Hannah Arendt dissects the pressures that current scientific and technological society imposes on our traditional way of being in the world. The core of the work decries how the most specifically human form of the active life, action, is being displaced by work, and even by labor. One of the manifestations of this displacement is the growing infiltration of economics (whose epistemic character as a science was undisputed at the time of Arendt’s writing) in political discourse, causing a colonization of the public space by ways of behavior more fit for the private space (the traditional space for work and labor), causing its weakening and the erasure of what makes us specifically human. The present work points towards elements for the critique of this conception of politics through the questioning of the scientific character of economics, which would make it a legitimate object of political discussion engaged in the proper collective configuration of the public space.