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  • 12 - Genealogies of Modern Violence: Arendt and Imperialism in Africa, 1830–1914

  • from Part III - Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
  • Edited by Louise Edwards, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Nigel Penn, University of Cape Town, Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History of Violence
    Published online:
    13 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 246-262

  • Summary

    This chapter interrogates Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) to better understand the violence of European imperialism in Africa and its impact on later developments, including the Holocaust. It argues that most readers have failed to properly understand Arendt’s own views of temporality and causation in popular appropriations such as the so-called “boomerang thesis.” Instead, the insights of African historiography and critical theory are used to propose a new reading of Arendt that reveals the contingency and counterintuitive turns of modern violence.