The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power
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...
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Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first to recognize that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. “With the Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt emerges as the most original and profound-therefore the most valuable-political theoretician of our times” (New Leader). Index. Library Journal Schocken's is the first hardcover edition of Arendt's 1951 volume to be available in decades. The book begins its study with European anti-Semitism in the 1800s and moves up to Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, which the author fled in the 1930s. This edition sports a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Powers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
IntroductionPreface to the first editionIAntisemitismPreface31Antisemitism as an outrage to common sense112The Jews, the nation-state, and the birth of antisemitism213The Jews and society744The dreyfus affair117IIImperialismPreface1591The political emancipation of the bourgeoisie1672Race-thinking before racism2103Race and bureaucracy2424Continental imperialism : the pan-movements2875The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man341IIITotalitarianismPreface3871A classless society4072The totalitarian movement4503Totalitarianism in power5074Ideology and terror : a novel form of government593App"Totalitarianism"617App"Concluding remarks"618Bibliography633Index657
\ Library JournalSchocken's is the first hardcover edition of Arendt's 1951 volume to be available in decades. The book begins its study with European anti-Semitism in the 1800s and moves up to Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, which the author fled in the 1930s. This edition sports a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Powers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
