The last war or the war to make the world safe for democracy

violence and rights in Hannah Arendt

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https://doi.org/10.5216/hr.v26i2.68282

Abstract

Paraphrased within the title of this text is a note Hannah Arendt made in August 1952. After reading Carl Schmitt’s Nomos der Erde, Arendt tries to confront Schmitt’s idea of a just war. In the text I attempt to reconstruct Arendt’s readings of differing political philosophy texts within the context of her thinking concerning the relationship between violence and power, force and law. Arendt’s refusal to accept the existence of violence which can “conquer” freedom and “create” right and democracy, brings contradiction to the great tradition of the followers of Marx, to whom Arendt undoubtedly belongs: how is and is revolutionary violence even possible and does violence as resistance to injustice bring justice?

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Author Biography

Petar Bojanic, University of Belgrade, Serbia, Social Ontology and applied philosophy, bojanicp@gmail.com

Senior research fellow at the "Centre for Modern Thought" at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) as well as the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade. After having completed his PhD, "The war (last) and the institution of Philosophy", under the supervision of Jacques Derrida and Etienne Balibar, he taught at the University of Cornell (USA), Aberdeen (UK) and the University of Belgrade (Sr).

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Published

2021-11-04

How to Cite

BOJANIC, P. The last war or the war to make the world safe for democracy: violence and rights in Hannah Arendt. História Revista, Goiânia, v. 26, n. 2, p. 184–197, 2021. DOI: 10.5216/hr.v26i2.68282. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/historia/article/view/68282. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2021): Cultura e barbárie: o mundo em tempos extremos

Section

Dossiê "Cultura e barbárie: o mundo em tempos extremos"

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