Graduate Student, International Relations
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Kimberly Hutchings
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About
My PhD thesis focuses on how 'life politics' relate to the ethics of political violence in modernity and takes its cue from a question Sheldon Wolin posed in 1962: "Do the social and political forms of any given age constitute a particular method for adjusting to violence". In light of this, I intend to examine the relationship of politics and violence in contemporary modernity where life itself has come to stand at the centre of political concern.
In this, I am looking specifically to the work of Hannah Arendt, in comparison and contrast to Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin, for a perspective that might provide a valuable dimension in addressing the question Wolin poses and aim to position Arendt in the nexus of life-politics-violence for my investigations.
