Sobre la violència

Hannah Arendt was challenged by the events and debates of the 1960s and reflected on the place of nonviolence and the rhetoric of violence in student uprisings, civil rights movements, the New Left and the Black Power. In On Violence he does so taking into account the background of the Cold War and the high level of technical development that the instruments of violence had achieved. Arendt believes that such decisive words as power, strength, authority, strength, and violence refer to definite and different phenomena, so using these concepts as synonyms not only indicates a certain deafness to linguistic meanings, but also a kind of blindness. towards the realities that correspond to them.