
Violence and power in the thought of Hannah Arendt / Caroline Ashcroft
"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-not...
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Autores principales: | Ashcroft, Caroline (Autor) |
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Autores Corporativos: | University of Pennsylvania Press (Publicador) |
Formato: | Libro |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] |
Edición: | 1st edition |
Colección: | Intellectual history of the modern age
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Sumario: | "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"-- |
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Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Descripción Física: | 278 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9780812252965 |