Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 09/2011

La desobediencia civil: aportes desde Bobbio, Habermas y Arendt.

Matías Esteban Ilivitzky

March 2011

CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política

Abstract

This article aims to explore the complex topic of civil disobedience from three different theoretical perspectives, namely those of Norberto Bobbio, Jürgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt. The correlation between this subject and other kinds of resistance to State’s authorities or to its constitutional and normative order will be analyzed. The similarities and discrepancies between the three authors selected will be compared, in order to assemble in the conclusions a synthetic view of their most relevant perspectives over the question.