Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270) and index.
Contents:
The modern state and its problems -- The Jewish army and the reconstruction of a people -- The Polis and the Res Publica -- Revolutionary politics and the unleashing of the social -- Political violence in modernity -- A politics of nonviolence? -- A space for the political.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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