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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashcroft, Caroline, Author.

Series:

Intellectual History of the Modern Age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Political violence.

Power (Philosophy).

Violence--Political aspects.

Violence.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The book deepens our understanding of Arendt's conception of the role of violence in her political theory. But it also uses her work as a provocation to think about how we might engage with, build on, or criticize contemporary ideas of the political that have drawn on Arendtian themes-notably via the notion of "agonal" or "agonistic" politics as theorized in recent years by thinkers such as Chantal Mouffe and Bonnie Honig-and how we can read Arendt in different ways to challenge or further our understanding of the political"--.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

ISBN:

9780812297942

0812297946

OCLC:

1243550862