On Revolution

336 pages

English language

Published April 11, 2006 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-303990-7
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Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.

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reviewed On revolution by Hannah Arendt (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Always Revolving

Arendt is a philosopher who always turns my thoughts upside-down, even when I have read so much of their work. On Revolution focuses on two major events of the past 250 years: The French Revolution (1789) and the American Revolution (1783). By using texts and letters from the time of these events, Arendt shows how much the thinking of the 'revolutionaries' in these events was guided by a very different ontology and way of looking at western politics.

The most striking revelation for me early in the book seems so glaringly obvious now: The word 'revolution'. The word does not imply a new system, it implies that we are revolving back to the same system, with new people in power. Today, we think of things that are 'revolutionary' as somehow counter-cultural or against the norm, but Arendt illustrates very well how this language was co-opted and altered over the last …

Review of 'On Revolution' on 'Goodreads'

Un sesudo estudio que en realidad está yendo y viniendo entre las similitudes y diferencias entre la revolución americana (exitosa) que dio lugar a la Constitución de los EEUU en 1776 y la revolución francesa (fracasada) que dio lugar a sucesivos periodos de revolución y contrarrevolución y hasta 14 constituciones.

Primero hace una introducción para diferenciar entre Guerra y Revolución. Considera que antes de la Modernidad, no existían revoluciones. La guerra ha existido desde siempre, pero raramente la guerra tuvo que ver con la idea de libertad. En la mente de ambos bandos en la guerra siempre hay un "antes muertos que rojos", que quiere pensar que las pérdidas no serán tan grandes como se prevé, que nuestra civilización sobrevivirá, mientras que hay quienes piensan que "antes rojos que muertos", pensando que la esclavitud no será tan mala, que la libertad no desaparecerá de la tierra para siempre.

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Subjects

  • Revolutions.