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On ViolenceREAD 2010. 7. 3. 09:54기회가 되어 학기 후반부에 읽은 책의 일부. 물론 다른 중요한 대목들이 아주 많음...
Hannah Arendt의 On Violence (1970):
[…] politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance. This implies that it is not correct to think of the opposite of violence as nonviolence; to speak of nonviolent power is actually redundant. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it (56).
Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end that must justify it. And since when we act we never know with any certainly the eventual consequences of what we are doing, violence can remain rational only if it pursues short-term goals (79).