SULLA VIOLENZA

This book makes clear that Arendt is amazingly well read... Though, given 50 years, I am always amazed at how much more we are supposed to read (and often how much less we do) as modern academics and students rather than academics in the 1950s and 60s. While I can see the relevance of Arendt's writi Leggi tutto

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

"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

I can feel myself slowly falling in love with Arendt. I already respected her, having been in the process of reading her "Origins" book for some time now. But in these shorter works of hers, you can really see her reasoning power and witness how perfectly balanced her turns of phrase are. What I mos Leggi tutto

"Tek sorun şuydu ki, işçiler, tatmin edici çalışma ve yaşam koşullarına kavuştukları andan itibaren proleterya olarak kalmayı ve devrimci rollerini oynamayı inatla reddediyorlardı." (s.85) Yukarıdaki vurucu alıntının da yer aldığı bu ince kitap; esasında Şiddet üzerine odaklanmışsa da iktidarın, Leggi tutto

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

كتاب موجز، أشبه برسالة، في تحليل ظاهرة العنف، لا عنف الدولة بالذات، وإنما لماذا نستخدم العنف، كمجتمعات أو كدولة، فيه استكمال للنقاش حول العنف النقي والسيادة بين فالتر بنيامين وكارل شميت، والذي تفرّع كثيراً بعدهم، ولكنه منشغل أكثر بتحليل العنف مجتمعيّاً وعمليّاً كما ظهر في مظاهرات السود في أمريكا، أو Leggi tutto

This was a really great work of political theory by Arendt. It explores violence, mostly through the lens of the 1960s when she was writing this book. It looks at the student rebellions across the world, in both democracies and communist countries. The coincidence of the uprisings is interesting, an 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

Now, this was disappointing! Part I is clearly dated, I was ,nevertheless, surprised from Arendt's trivialization of black student movement, and generally from here "lumping" of the Neo-Leftists student movements across both sides of the Atlantic. Part II, Arendt introduces here definition of Power, Leggi tutto