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ON VIOLENCE - HANNAH ARENDT KARTONIERT (TB)

From Hannah Arendt  the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism  her influential essay
examining the relationship between violence  power  war and politics 'Violence can destroy
power  it is utterly incapable of creating it' Why has violence played such a significant role
in human history? Written in 1970  with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent
memory  war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America exploding into student
protest  Hannah Arendt's seminal work dissects violence in the twentieth century: its nature
and causes  its relationship with politics and war  its role in the modern age. Arendt warns
against the glamorization of violence by revolutionary causes  and argues that true  lasting
power can never grow 'out of the barrel of a gun'. 'Incisive  deeply probing  written with
clarity and grace  it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our
times' The Nation With an introduction by Arendt expert  Lyndsey Stonebridge  Professor of
Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham.

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