Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators and attempt to make peace

and attempt to make peace with the past

her struggles

both on and offline

It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets

Henri Nouwen

Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators and attempt to make peaceHannah 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