Violence and power in the thought of Hannah Arendt /

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ashcroft, Caroline (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:Intellectual history of the modern age.
Subjects:
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975
Political violence.
Violence > Political aspects.
Power (Philosophy)
Political science > Philosophy.
Violence politique.
Violence > Aspect politique.
Pouvoir (Morale)
terrorism.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
Political science > Philosophy
Political violence
Violence > Political aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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