Name: The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Author: Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 9780156701532

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hannah Arendt

Introduction by

Anne Applebaum

Publisher

Mariner Books Classics

Year

1973

Language

English

Pages

576

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.5 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

0156701537

ISBN13

9780156701532

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism--an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.The Origins of Totalitarianism 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. Arendt 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.

Hannah Arendt

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(Hannover, Alemania, 1906 - Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 1975) Arendt se ha erigido, como uno de los puntos de referencia fundamentales para el conocimiento de la filosofía política. Nacida en Hannover, estudió en Marburgo, Friburgo y Heidelberg, donde se graduó en Filosofía. En 1933, cuando los nazis ocuparon el poder, emigró a París. Más tarde se instaló en Estados Unidos, donde dirigió la Conferencia sobre las Relaciones Judías (1944-1946) y también la Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc. Fue catedrática en la Universidad de Chicago y enseñó asimismo en Columbia, Princeton y Berkeley.

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