1st Edition

Hannah Arendt The Illegitimacy of Violence

By Ramin Jahanbegloo Copyright 2025
112 Pages
by Routledge India

112 Pages
by Routledge India

112 Pages
by Routledge India

This book presents an original understanding of Arendt in the context of comparative political theory. The author discusses Arendt’s acute and perceptive view of violence as well as practical applications of her thought in a comparative context. The book examines Hannah Arendt’s ideas about politics and violence provoked by the horrors of totalitarianism. It applies the rich potential of... Read more

Introduction: Thinking with Arendt in the Age of Violence

1.Politics against Violence

2.Violence against Politics

3.The Illegitimacy of Violence

4.Arendt and the Gandhian Promise of Nonviolence

Conclusion:  Reading Arendt in Tehran

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Ramin Jahanbegloo is Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University, India.