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Hannah Arendt does an excellent job of tracing the thread of violence through the quilt of violent acts. The problem with violence is that it is no a problem until it effects 'us' directly: but by that time any cohesive solution to violence is no longer attainable. The longer violent acts are not ad Leggi tutto

"Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power." Arendt refuses to define power as mere ability to do violence as some of the old authors she quotes has de

كتاب عظيم لأقصى حدّ بالنسبة لي.. والخمس نجمات هنّ لقيمته المعرفية بالنسبة لي وللمفاهيم التي اكتسبتها منه.. الريفيو قريباً إن شاء الله..

Had this been written by Joan Bloggs, it would be out of print and almost certainly ignored. But it was written by Hannah Arendt, so it's in print. And given the lack of books on violence, that's probably a good thing. Unfortunately I suspect that it can easily be misread. The historical context her Leggi tutto

به نام او 🔹️«خشونت» عنوان رساله‌ای از هانا آرنت، فیلسوف یهودی آلمانی‌تبار است که عزت‌الله فولادوند آن را به‌همراه مصاحبه‌ای طولانی با عنوان «اندیشه‌هایی درباره سیاست و انقلاب» در قالب یک کتاب ترجمه کرده است، کتابی که در سال پنجاه و نه اول‌بار توسط نشر خوارزمی منتشر شد. ‌‌‌ 🔸️آرنت در رساله‌ای درباره خش Leggi tutto

I wanted to read something for Holocaust Memorial Day and well, Hannah Arendt is pretty much the first philosopher that crosses my mind when I think about the Holocaust, even if this book isn't about the Holocaust so really, I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. On Violence is a short book (or Leggi tutto

While there are a number of key insights to be had in this slim, late work and her formulation of the inverse relationship between power and violence is fascinating, it's all bogged down in cringe-inducing racism -- for instance, her assertion that black student activists who were unqualified to att Leggi tutto