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Arendt : [Revolutions’] are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning...the appointed recurring cycle into which human affairs are bound by reason of their always being driven to extremes. Antiquity was well acquainted with political change and the violence that went with change, but neither of them appeared to it to bring about something new.
— Aug 19, 2019 12:26PM
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Civil war ... reveals the unity of a community at the point of its breakdown and shows the limits to managing conflict before its descent into collective violence... it reveals "the threshold of politicisation and depoliticisation" between the household (oikos) and the city (polis)...the Leviathan is to its people as Christ is to his ekklēsia ...
(Reviewed by David Armitage)
— Aug 19, 2019 12:12PM
(Reviewed by David Armitage)
