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The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt ; intoduction by Samantha Power.
- Title
- The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt ; intoduction by Samantha Power.
- Author
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
- Publication
- New York : Schocken Books, c2004.
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- Description
- xxvii, 674 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt sought to provide a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it. For Arendt, totalitarianism was a form of governance that eliminated the very possibility of political action. Totalitarian leaders attract both mobs and elites, take advantage of the unthinkability of their atrocities, target "objective enemies" (classes of people who are liquidated simply because of their group membership), use terror to create total loyalty, rely on concentration camps, and are obsessive in their pursuit of global primacy. But even more presciently, Arendt understood that totalitarian solutions could well survive the demise of totalitarian regimes."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1951].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-656) and index.
- ISBN
- 0805242252
- LCCN
- 2003060749
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries