The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Political Science
A great boo\. Deeply thought-out and conscientiously documented, - [it] will take its place among the major writings of our times."
—H. Stuart Hughes
Recognized upon publication as the comprehensive account of its subject and later hailed as a classic by the Times Literary Supplement, this book continues to be the definitive history of this political movement. It begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in Central and Western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. The final section discusses the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
Here Arendt discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, and the use of terror, essential to this form of government. In a brilliant concluding... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Political Science
A great boo\. Deeply thought-out and conscientiously documented, - [it] will take its place among the major writings of our times."
—H. Stuart Hughes
Recognized upon publication as the comprehensive account of its subject and later hailed as a classic by the Times Literary Supplement, this book continues to be the definitive history of this political movement. It begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in Central and Western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. The final section discusses the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
Here Arendt discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, and the use of terror, essential to this form of government. In a brilliant concluding chapter Arendt analyzes the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.
"With The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt emerges as the most original and profound—therefore the most valuable— political theoretician of our times." —The New Leader
"The most influential single book on the theme of totalitarianism." —The Foreign Affairs 50-year Bibliography
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research for many years, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Crises of the Republic, On Violence, Life of the Mind, and Men in Darl{ Times. The Origins of was first published in 1951. ^ _
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