...reappear, in their authentic diversity. These data, in our context, may be enumerated as follows: Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but...existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is "in power" we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain...

...relationship between the exercise of basic freedoms and political instability.97 "Power," she says, "corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert."98 Power belongs to the group, not to the individual. As soon as the group, from which the...

...without compulsion. Hannah Arendt proceeds from a different model of action, the communicative: "Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert."2 The -basic phenomenon is not the instrumentalizing of another's will for one's own purposes...

...age of community and democracy generated by the use of personal computers. MYTH INFORMATION 26 "Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but...existence only so long as the group keeps together." Hannah Arendt, On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969), p. 44. 27 John Markoff, "A View...

...proclaiming a new age of community and democracy generated by the use of personal computers. 26. "Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but...existence only so long as the group keeps together." Hannah Arendt, On Violence (New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1969), 44. 27. John Markoff, "A View...

...Hannah Arendt's (1970:44) somewhat unconventional definition of power: that 'Power corresponds with the human ability not just to act but to act in concert....existence only so long as the group keeps together.' The ability of the people of Manila to act in concert, to join Aquino's civil disobedience campaign...

...between political power and group politics is simple and direct. Hannah Arendt states it well: "Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but...remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together."51 And again: "[PJower springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment...

...government, but violence is not." She did not see power as the ability to command, but as the "human ability to act in concert. Power is never the property of...existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain...

...normative, she too insists that power cannot be understood on the voluntarist, Newtonian model: 'Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but...to act in concert. Power is never the property of the individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together'...

...conflates power and violence, viewing politics as a sphere of domination. Power, Arendt maintains, "corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert." Violence, on the other hand, "is distinguished by its instrumental character" and "is ruled by the...