Power, violence, and torture: making sense of insurgency and legitimacy crises in past and present wars of attrition
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… Hannah Arendt’s writing on the notions of power and violence captures this fundamental
dichotomy and its implications for the concept of legitimacy. While violence remains wedded to
a means/ends rationality, power, according to Arendt, is an intrinsically intersubjective ability to
act in common within the public realm, one that gives rise to legitimacy and political authority.
Arendt’s political theory, and her distinctive approach to the question of power and violence,
will be tackled in the second part of this chapter in order to understand the dilemmas that …
dichotomy and its implications for the concept of legitimacy. While violence remains wedded to
a means/ends rationality, power, according to Arendt, is an intrinsically intersubjective ability to
act in common within the public realm, one that gives rise to legitimacy and political authority.
Arendt’s political theory, and her distinctive approach to the question of power and violence,
will be tackled in the second part of this chapter in order to understand the dilemmas that …
All right, [General Jacques] Massu won the battle of Algiers; but that meant losing the war.Paul-Henri Teitgen1The terrorists are as brutal an enemy as we’ve ever faced. They’re unconstrained by any notion of our common humanity, or by the rules of warfare.
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