On Revolution

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Hannah Arendt: On Revolution (2016, Faber & Faber, Limited)

352 pages

English language

Published Dec. 2, 2016 by Faber & Faber, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-571-32741-6
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3 stars (1 review)

About the American, French and Russian revolutions.

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3 stars

I really enjoy Arendt's writing - accessible, thorough, and incredibly in-depth. My only complaint about this book is that it focuses specifically on the US and French revolutions to the point of exclusivity, and I think that many of the points that she makes in comparing the two could have been well-served by exploring other revolutions like Russia, China, and Cuba. In this sense it's a bit unnecessarily Cartesian in tone, which saddens me as Arendt is certainly capable of comparing and contrasting the richer subtleties of a number of revolutionary contexts.

Subjects

  • Revolutions