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The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hardcover • 2004 • English

The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power

By Hannah Arendt

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About the book

The Origins of Totalitarianism is an indispensable book for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. Nothing in the nineteenth century—indeed, nothing in human history—could have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humani...Show more

Political structure and processes
Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship
International relations

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ISBN

9780805242256

Publisher

Schocken

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Format

Hardcover

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