132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south. It explores the relationship of Arendt’s thought, mostly as expressed in On Violence (1969), to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and the transposition of... Read more
Introduction: Violence and Europe-Middle East Coupling 1960s-2019; 1. Fanon and Arendt: A Black Man and a Jewish Woman; 2. Violence vs. Power; 3. New Humanism; 4. Jihadism and Other Remains of Colonization; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Patrycja Sasnal is a political scientist, philosopher and Arabist specializing in IR in the Middle East, with a focus on radicalization, political violence, postcolonial theory and migration. She is currently the head of the Middle East and Africa programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
