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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Hauptverfasser:Ashcroft, Caroline (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaften:University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Ausgabe:1st edition
Schriftenreihe:Intellectual history of the modern age
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:278 Seiten
ISBN:9780812252965