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In this tremendously thoughtful and very engaging book, Patrycja Sasnal offers a brilliant study of two of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century, Fanon and Arendt, and then inter- prets violence in the contemporary Arab world using their tools of analysis. Her study is original, insightful, and challenging. —Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam This 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. It explores the relationship of Arendt’s thought, mostly as expressed in On Violence (1969), to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and the transposition of that relationship to the contemporary phenom- enon of violent Islamic extremism. The book reveals a greater com- monality between Fanon and Arendt as well as the universal function of jihadism that satisfies the conditions for political violence, as cate- gorized 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. Written 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. Patrycja Sasnal is a political scientist, philosopher and Arabist special- izing in IR in the Middle East, with a focus on radicalization, p olitical violence, postcolonial theory and migration. She is currently the head of the Middle East and Africa programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms Series Editor: Mark Jackson, Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK This series provides a forum for innovative, critical research into the changing contexts, emerging potentials, and contemporary challenges ongoing within postcolonial studies. Postcolonial studies across the so- cial sciences and humanities are in a period of transition and innova- tion. 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No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-0-367-25959-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-29075-6 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by codeMantra To Marek Contents List of illustrations xi Acknowledgements xii Abbreviations xiii Introduction: violence and Europe-Middle East coupling 1960s–2019 1 Notes on literature, purpose and structure 5 1 Fanon and Arendt: a black man and a Jewish woman 13 Philosophical influences: philosophers of beginnings 15 Reception of WotE and connection with jihadism 21 2 Violence vs. power 32 Sartre’s preface and the hijacking of Fanon 32 Fanon’s violence and power 33 Arendt’s violence and power 42 Rational and irrational violence 48 3 New humanism 54 Responsibility and commitment in the political sphere 58 Man creating himself in the public space 67 Political nation through bonds 74 4 Jihadism and other remains of colonisation 86 How big is jihadist appeal? 88 Plastic Islam and utopia: ideological and political reasons behind the attractiveness of jihadism 90
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