On Revolution
Published on 4. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-14-303990-7 (ISBN)
Description
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.
She looks at the principles which underlie all revolutions, starting with the first great examples in America and France, and showing how both the theory and practice of revolution have since developed. Finally, she foresees the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial changes in international relations, with revolution becoming the key tactic.
She looks at the principles which underlie all revolutions, starting with the first great examples in America and France, and showing how both the theory and practice of revolution have since developed. Finally, she foresees the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial changes in international relations, with revolution becoming the key tactic.
Reviews / Votes
"Arendt's admirers will welcome her excursion into the relatively neglected field of comparative revolution. She is never dull, enormously erudite, always imaginative, original and full of insights." -The Sunday Times (London)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition type
Annotated edition
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
284 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-303990-7 (9780143039907)
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Hannnah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and Between Past and Future.