The origins of totalitarianism /
By: Arendt, Hannah [author.].
Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2017Description: xlviii, 702 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780241316757; 9780241316757:; 0241316758.Subject(s): Totalitarianism | Imperialism | AntisemitismDDC classification: 320.53 AREItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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First published in 1951.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-656) and index.
Antisemitism as an outrage to common sense -- The Jews, the nation-state, and the birth of antisemitism -- The Jews and society -- The Dreyfus Affair -- The political emancipation of the bourgeoisie -- Race-thinking before racism -- Race and bureaucracy -- Continental imperialism : the pan-movements -- The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man -- A classless society -- The totalitarian movement -- Totalitarianism in power -- Ideology and terror : a novel form of government.
Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.