The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler
and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian
states. In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of
Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the
totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism
after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. Identifying terror as
the very essence of this form of government, she discusses the
transformation of classes into masses and the use of propaganda in
dealing with the nontotalitarian world—and in her brilliant
concluding chapter, she analyzes the nature of isolation and
loneliness as preconditions for total domination. “The most
original and profound—therefore the most valuable—political
theoretician of our times.” —Dwight Macdonald, The New Leader
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ISBN
9780547545929
Publisert
2016
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Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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