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Title	:	On Revolution
Author	:	Hannah Arendt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 26th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. History. Political Science

On Revolution

Hannah Arendt

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 1840 Users | 105 Reviews

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Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations. She looks at the principles which underlie all revolutions, starting with the first great examples in America and France, and showing how both the theory and practice of revolution have since developed. Finally, she foresees the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial changes in international relations, with revolution becoming the key tactic.

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Original Title:	On Revolution
ISBN:	0143039903 (ISBN13: 9780143039907)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.04 From 1840 Users | 105 Reviews

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This book made me want to be a better citizen. We need better spaces to exercise our freedom. Lots of great analysis on revolutions, their goals and failures. A super comparative study as well.

DEFINITELT DO NOT READ! A complete waste of time and ink and trees. A bunch of sophisticated-sounding nonsense and complicated yet meaningless bullshit that for some reason sounds really deep to people who have no knowledge of history.

As difficult as The Human Condition (see my review), and it takes longer to pick up steam. Luckily though, Arendt keeps the momentum building until the end, starting around Chapter 3. Overall, Arendt spends too long discussing abstract philosophical ideas and linguistic origins and not enough time discussing the practical distinctions among revolutions, and what makes them work or fail. When she does this, the book becomes much more interesting, although any enjoyment is still hampered by the

Hannah Arendt was a much more perceptive critic of the French Revolution than Burke, although she had the virtue of hindsight. In On Revolution (1963), Arendt made the provocative claim that the American Revolution was actually more ambitious than the French Revolution, although it failed to set the world ablaze. On Revolution is a work of dichotomies. Arendt claimed that the French Revolution was a struggle over scarcity and inequality, while the American Revolution was quest to secure

I'd call this a good comparison of the French and American revolutions as well as analysis of why the latter was a far greater influence in future revolutions than the former. Arendt does have profound things to say about hypocrisy as a political sin and a human psychological necessity and the nature and origin of revolution in the modern sense of the word but I felt she went more off base with her praise of the American political system versus the more multi-party systems of continental

She who describes herself, not a philosopher but, as a political scientist analyses American and French Revolutions in terms of their philosophies, driving force behind their motivations, expectations and and their implications across the world. Even though both revolutions justify themselves through the wants of the poor, she thinks that French Revolution did not meet this expectations and ended up very bloody. Pre-modern social cahnges were understood as restoration not as radical changes.

This book's conception of politics and the political is narrow and elitist, and its portrayal of Marx was not accurate. But what made it exceptionally lacking was the way it treated the American revolution. While Arendt acknowledges slavery and colonialism, she brushes it aside so it does not challenge her idealistic picture of the US revolution and US society. Neil Roberts, in "Freedom as Marronage", provides an excellent overview of why Arendt's argument has undertones of anti-blackness.