Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt / / Caroline Ashcroft.

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarkably, despite the fact that it was perhaps the most pressing issue of her era, this theme in her work has rarely been explored. In Violence and Power in t...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Modern State and Its Problems
  • Chapter 2. The Jewish Army and the Reconstruction of a People
  • Chapter 3. The Polis and the Res Publica
  • Chapter 4. Revolutionary Politics and the Unleashing of the Social
  • Chapter 5. Political Violence in Modernity
  • Chapter 6. A Politics of Nonviolence?
  • Chapter 7. A Space for the Political
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments