Caroline Ashcroft

Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt

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Produktbeschreibung

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. In Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Caroline Ashcroft argues that what Arendt opposes in political violence is the use of force to determine politics, an idea central to modern sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Intellectual History of the Modern Age
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252965
• ISBN-10: 0812252969
• Artikelnr.: 60329635

Autorenporträt

Caroline Ashcroft teaches in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

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