Approach to the paradigm of freedom in the essay What Is freedom? By Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This paper presents the main findings obtained from a study on the approach to the paradigm of the concept "freedom" developed in the essay "What is freedom?", Present in the book "Between the past and the future, eight exercises on reflection politics”, by Hannah Harendt from a hermeneutical paradigm and qualitative approach. The results come from the data collected from the unit of analysis "freedom" extracted from the transcription of the text, analyzed using grounded theory. Six categories of the paradigm structure were identified, three of the process and five of the consequences. Finally, two conditional paths were elaborated "From automatism to petrified society" and "Freedom as an expression of the infinitely improbable" The Miraculous "