Is Power the Opposite of Violence?
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In Hannah Arendt's 1970 book 'On Violence', she discusses the topic of violence, and its relation to power. Arguing that power and violence are opposites. Putting forward the idea that violence is the loss or absence of power. In this video we look at that claim. Contrasting it against other models of power put forward by people like Weber, Allen, Lukes, Dahl, and Bachrach and Baratz. Drawing on their work to look at various ways power can manifest, and seeing if the claim made by Arendt holds up.
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Allen, A. (1998) ‘Rethinking power’, Hypatia, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 21–40.
Arendt, H. (1970) On Violence, Orlando, Harcourt.
Bachrach, P. and Baratz, M. S. (1962) ‘Two faces of power’, The American Political Science Review, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 947–52.
Dahl, R.A. (1957) 'The concept of power', Behavioral Science, Vol .2, No. 3, pp. 201-215
Kim, S. H. (2012) ‘Max Weber’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [Online]. Available at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ (Accessed 11 March 2020).
Lukes, S. (2005) Power: A Radical View, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
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