On Violence - Hannah Arendt reading book transience and theatricality

transience and theatricality

it presents a cloud of discursive subjects and narratives

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On Violence - Hannah Arendt reading book transience and theatricalityWhy 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 Arendts 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