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On Revolution (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) [Paperback]

Hannah Arendt
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February 8, 1991 014018421X 978-0140184211
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.


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?Dr. Arendt's mind has always seemed to me something of an eighth wonder; an erudite and disciplined thinker, she still retains the ebullient intuition of a woman able always to come at things from a fresh and unusual angle. This is a study to which the thoughtful reader can return again and again for both intellectual delight and profit.?-Atlantic --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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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, On Revolution, and Between Past and Future (all available from Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (February 8, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 014018421X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140184211
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) taught political science and philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Chicago. Widely acclaimed as a brilliant and original thinker, her works include Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Human Condition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant May 3, 2000
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This book is yet another deep, original and controversial contribution of Hannah Arendt to twentieth century political theory. In this book, Arendt analyzes the phenomenon of revolution by focusing almost exclusively on the great XVIIIth century revolutions, the American and the French. Arendt's deep insights allow her to compare, both on a theoretical and a practical level, the similarities and differences between the two and on how and why the American Revolution allowed the foundation of freedom while the French failed miserably in this attempt almost from the beginning. The great themes in this book are the social question (necessity) in its relation to politics (the realm of freedom) and the ever-present distinction between liberation and freedom properly speaking. Thus, constitutions and their significance, the problem of secular law in relation to its need for an Absolute with which to provide a foundation for it, the problem of hypocrisy and Robespierre's Terror, and insightful interpretations of some of the Founding Fathers' political thought (though in my opinion a bit too far reaching in her inferences thereof), are all issues with which she deals with in this book and which are rounded up in a great closing chapter. Deep, powerful, perceptive, intense: like most of Arendt's writings, a must read for anyone interested in political thought and theory.
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4.0 out of 5 stars On "On Revolution" January 11, 2007
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On Revolution by Hannah Arendt is a philosophical study of the nature of revolutions, mainly focusing on the French and American revolutions. A big portion of her analysis involves the "Social Question" involved in revolutions. How do revolutions start? Even though her writing style can be convoluted and overly verbose at times, eventually the reader will acclimate to her not so accessible prose. This is not a light read. If you want a book to stimulate internal dialogue, however, this is the book to buy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Classic 20th Century Study On Revolution October 25, 2011
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I first read this brilliant and classic study of the nature of revolutions as a college student in the late 1960s, when a cultural revolution was indeed occurring in the U.S. After watching the media coverage of today's angry protesters against unregulated capitalism, it was well worth re-reading.

Dr. Arendt analyzes the implications of 3 major revolutions, the American, French and Russian. The only truly successful one was the American, because it was grounded in the ideals of the Enlightenment, as well as the classical values espoused by the Founding Fathers. The French and Russian revolutions were rooted in class hatred and resentment of exploitation, a sentiment that is chillingly becoming a reality today. She herself lived through the terror of being a Jew in 1930s Germany, and barely escaped deportation to a concentration camp. Although her writing style is always disciplined, her own experience, in my opinion, colors her analysis of the French and Russian revolutions: violent uprising often leads to an even more repressive form of government that the one overthrown.

Her analysis of the success of the American Revolution, and the ensuing chaos and bloodshed that followed the French and Russian, is still among the most important political observations of the 20th century. A classic, and a prescient warning in our economically unstable time.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not impressed...
On Revolution is at least a hundred pages longer than it needs to be. More importantly, the main problems I had with the book are Arendt's excessive generalizations and... Read more
Published 9 months ago by redflagblackflag
4.0 out of 5 stars I've bought this book but probably won't read it!
The formatting and publishing quality is simply sub-par. In particular the line-spacing and font size gives you headache. The publisher should really do something about it (e.g. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Sipan
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Insights
Hannah Arendt's "On Revolution" is a long meditation on the French and American Revolutions, and why the former, albiet a violent failure, came to direct the course of modern human... Read more
Published on April 24, 2011 by Jiang Xueqin
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At times threatening to deviate into academic irrelevance but always recovering to continue a highly accessable treatment of the topic of revolution in the post-nuclear age, Hannah... Read more
Published on April 17, 2011 by Baldurdash
4.0 out of 5 stars Dense but well worth the effort
On Revolution is a philosphical examination of revolution which focuses on the U.S. and French revolutions of the 18th century as the model. Read more
Published on December 21, 2009 by Matthew Smith
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This Arendt's classical work speaks for itself. It's a fundamental book for any studious of the processes linked to any structural rupture on the basis of organized societies.
Published on June 13, 2008 by A. Mello
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