Zane Ozola

Our lived and mental space and life is the intensive basis for our external social world – where order is maintained is the form of state apparatuses, politics, sciences, etc. It is clear that these intensive processes can be available for tracing only by a thinking which is not representative and which does not mirror our narcissistic image of ourselves. Thinking which does not operate in terms of habitual bias, where “habit [serves as] a principle which cannot invoke experience without falsifying it, or without, at the same time, invoking fictitious repetitions.”1 In my paper I will point out the structure and the possibility for freedom of subjectivity in contemporary representation-mediated culture and how it is related to Deleuze’s conception of philosophy and thinking.

This paper focuses on Hannah Arendt’s ideas concerning freedom and the political in the Greek polis. By outlining the structure of the notions of labour, work, and action in relation to thinking, responsibility, and necessity, it aims to explore the possibility of thinking about freedom in the context of contemporary society. Arendt’s phenomenological reflections on the nature of human beings and the significance of the political in Western society within the framework of the decline of Europe encompass a broad spectrum of themes. It traces the origins of Western culture and exposes how the evolving dynamics of the private and public, thought and action, and the progress of science and technology have contributed to a way of thinking that has led to the emergence of totalitarianism. Keywords: freedom, work, labour, action, political, human being