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On Violence by Hannah Arendt examines the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the context of political theory. Arendt delves into the relationship between violence and power, challenging conventional views and providing a thoughtful analysis of how violence manifests and its impact on society.
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On Violence

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On Violence is Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war, and politics, now available in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.

Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging, and the streets of Europe and America seething with student protest, Hannah Arendt's now classic work offers a startling dissection of violence in the twentieth century—its nature and causes, its place in politics and war, and its role in the modern age.

Combining theory and lucid historical analysis, Arendt argues that violence and power are ultimately incompatible, and that one fills the vacuum created by the other—an insight which continues to offer a valuable framework for understanding the chaos of our own times.

Includes a brilliant introduction by Lyndsey Stonebridge.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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The Nation describes On Violence as incisive, deeply probing, and written with clarity and grace. The review highlights the book as providing an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241631645

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 67g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

Hannah Arendt (Author) Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in 1975. Lyndsey Stonebridge (Introducer) Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of We Are Free to Change the World- Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024); Placeless People- Writing, Rights, and Refugees (2018); winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination- Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection, Writing and Righting- Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster, and lives in London. www.lyndseystonebridge.com

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