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Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam

Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam

Sasnal, Patrycja

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms

General Political ScienceGeographyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0367259591
ISBN13: 9780367259594
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 15 2019
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

It explores the relationship of Arendt's thought, mostly as expressed in On Violence (1969), to Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and the transposition of that relationship to the contemporary phenomenon of violent Islamic extremism. The book reveals a greater commonality between Fanon and Arendt as well as the universal function of jihadism that satisfies the conditions for political violence, as categorized by Fanon in the global south and Arendt in the global north. Read in tandem, Arendt and Fanon help uncover the fundamental problems of our European, American, Middle Eastern and African political systems as well as north-south relations. By studying political theory, the book finds global political commonalities in a postcolonial reality.

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