Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

This happened at the same time that neoliberalism

the waging of holy war

and attempt to make peace with the past

Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population

Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators Henri NouwenHannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarkably, despite the fact that it was perhaps the most pressing issue of her era, this theme in her work has rarely been explored. In Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Caroline Ashcroft deepens our understanding of Arendt's conception of the role of violence, offering a critical reading of her