“The Concept of Terror in the Writings of Paul Gilroy and Hannah Arendt”

“Something about terror itself evades referential speech”

Over twenty students and faculty gathered to discuss new research from Political and Social Thought Professor Isaac Reed. In Reed’s argument, Gilroy and Arendt both challenge the modern fantasy of sovereign freedom and offer alternative theories of modernity through the lens of terror. How is terror distinct from power as a way of organizing social behavior? Why does terror destroy the moral person? And what connects the events of the Holocaust with Jim Crow racial terror?

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