Hannah Arendt’s On Violence (1970) is a seminal work in the study of political violence. It famously draws a distinction between power and violence and argues that the latter must be excluded from the political sphere. Although this may make Arendt’s text an appealing resource for critiques of rising political violence today, I argue that we should resist this temptation. In this article, I identify how the divisions and exclusions within her theory enable her to explicitly disavow violence on one level, while implicitly relying on a constitutive and racialized form of violence on another. In particular, Arendt leaves legal and state violence presumed, but untheorized, focusing her critique instead on dissident action, especially that of the Black Power movement. Any analysis that incorporates Arendt’s conceptual distinctions is therefore susceptible to reproducing a political theory that neglects state violence in the service of White rule, yet charges those who resist it with breaching the peace. Chad Kautzer, "Political Violence and Race: A Critique of Hannah Arendt" page 2 of 12 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.3 (2019): Special Issue On Complicity and Dissent. Ed. Nitzan Lebovic

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政治暴力与种族：对汉娜·阿伦特的批评

汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）的《暴力论》（On Violence，1970）是政治暴力研究的开创性著作。它著名地区分了权力和暴力，并主张必须将暴力和暴力排除在政治领域之外。尽管这可能使阿伦特的文章成为当今批评政治暴力上升的诱人资源，但我认为我们应该抵制这种诱惑。在本文中，我确定了她的理论中的划分与排除如何使她能够在一个层面上明确地拒绝暴力，而在另一个层面上隐含地依赖于本构性和种族化的暴力形式。尤其是，阿伦特（Arendt）保留了法律和国家暴力的假设，但没有理论依据，而是将她的批评重点放在持不同政见者的行动上，特别是黑人权力运动。因此，任何包含阿伦特概念差异的分析都容易产生一种政治理论，该理论忽略了为怀特统治服务的国家暴力，却指控那些反对白人的人破坏和平。乍得·考泽（Chad Kautzer），“政治暴力与种族：对汉娜·阿伦特的批评”，第2页，共12页CLCWeb：比较文学与文化21.3（2019）：共谋与异议特刊。埃德 尼赞·莱博维奇