This article seeks to thematicize the approaches of the thinkers Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault to the origin of politicalness and the historiographic assumptions underlying their respective political theories (vented by a prefatory analysis of the paradigm of birth and life). We seek to relate the different approaches with the certain possibilities of political resistance put forward by these authors, identifying opportunities to (re)think the problem of political power based on ways of thinking about history and its inherent temporalities. In other words, it is important to see the relationship between a given historical notion of political origin and the way of thinking about given legal-political phenomena and their modes of agency.
Keywords
Hannah Arendt; Michel Foucault; Origin; Politics; Resistance