ARENDT, FANON AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ISLAM

u003cpu003eThis book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eIt explores the relationship of Arendt's thought, mostly as expressed in u003ciu003eOn Violence u003c/iu003e(1969), to Fanon's u003ciu003eThe Wretched of the Earth u003c/iu003e(1961) and the transposition of that relationship to the contemporary phenomenon of violent Islamic extremism. The book reveals a greater commonality between Fanon and Arendt as well as the universal function of jihadism that satisfies the conditions for political violence, as categorized by Fanon in the global south and Arendt in the global north. Read in tandem, Arendt and Fanon help uncover the fundamental problems of our European, American, Middle Eastern and African political systems as well as north-south relations. By studying political theory, the book finds global political commonalities in a postcolonial reality.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eWritten in an accessible style, this book will be of great interest to undergraduates and graduates in philosophy, political sciences and international relations (IR), sociology and Middle Eastern studies as well as scholars and professionals interested in radicalization; violent extremism; and the foreign policies of European, Middle Eastern and African countries.u003c/pu003e

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