Hannah Arendt, Anne Applebaum

The Origins of Totalitarianism (eBook, ePUB)

with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianisman essential component of any study of twentieth-century political historynow with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.

In recent years, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.

The book 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.

Hannah Arendt then explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.

This edition includes an introduction by Anne Applebauma leading voice on authoritarianism and Russian historywho fears that once again, we are living in a world that Arendt would recognize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063354470
• Artikelnr.: 67797566

Autorenporträt

Hannah Arendt (19061975) is considered one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. A political theorist and philosopher, she is also the author of Crises of the Republic, On Violence, The Life of the Mind, and Men in Dark Times. The Origins of Totalitarianism was first published in 1951.

Rezensionen

A kind of nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four The New York Times