“…At the same time, in today's society, diverse political, economic, and cultural factors provoke the overlapping of purely private interests with public values. As Arendt reminds us, such disinterest in public participation is related to the modernity and contemporaneity phenomena, among which we can mention the loss of the power of articulation in the social sphere and in the directions of the state, the pulverization of public values, the crisis of social ideals, as well as the overvaluation of individualism (Arendt, 1972;Arendt & Kohn, 2006;Lafer, 2003;Tenório, 2016). According to Simmel and Bauman, allied to the sophistication of technology and insensitivity and volatility in urban life, these phenomena lead to social action and ethical-political practice, which aim for the common good, too often disqualified in favor of exclusively private issues of individuals oriented by essentially instrumental and consumerist values (Bauman, 2005(Bauman, , 2007(Bauman, , 2010Simmel, 1990).…”