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50 years old, and simultaneously frighteningly up-to-date and hopelessly dated. Arendt picks up issues and dynamics that are still (and maybe always were) relevant in her attempt to define violence and power as not two sides of a coin but antitheses; power can employ violence, but violence destroys the base for power, which based on the situation in the late 60s - Vietnam, student revolts, Prague - asks questions of "Where do we go from here?" that largely remain unanswered, even though several of her warnings certainly ring even more true now. Unfortunately her definition of "power" feels flat and simplistic (not least in her glib dismissal of the Black Power movement and anticolonialism) which sort of makes her whole building shake a bit.
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50 years old, and simultaneously frighteningly up-to-date and hopelessly dated. Arendt picks up issues and dynamics that are still (and maybe always were) relevant in her attempt to define violence and power as not two sides of a coin but antitheses; power can employ violence, but violence destroys the base for power, which based on the situation in the late 60s - Vietnam, student revolts, Prague - asks questions of "Where do we go from here?" that largely remain unanswered, even though several of her warnings certainly ring even more true now. Unfortunately her definition of "power" feels flat and simplistic (not least in her glib dismissal of the Black Power movement and anticolonialism) which sort of makes her whole building shake a bit.
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