The Origins of Totalitarianism"How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and "Origins" raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can lead." Jeffrey C. Isaac, The Washington Post 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. |
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... Nation - State , and the Birth of Antisemitism 11 1 : The Equivocalities of Emancipation and the Jewish State Banker 11. 11 : Early Antisemitism 28. III : The First Antisemitic Parties 35. IV : Leftist Antisemitism 42. v : The Golden ...
... Nation - State and the End of the Rights of Man 1 : The " Nation of Minorities " and the Stateless People 269. II : The Perplexities of the Rights of Man 290 . 158 185 222 267 PART THREE : TOTALITARIANISM TEN : A Classless Society 305 1 ...
Contents
The Jews the NationState and the Birth | 11 |
The Jews and Society | 54 |
Between Vice and Crime | 79 |
The Dreyfus Affair | 89 |
Pardon and Its Significance | 119 |
IMPERIALISM | 121 |
The Alliance Between | 147 |
RaceThinking Before Racism | 158 |
Continental Imperialism the PanMovements | 222 |
Party and Movement | 250 |
The Decline of the NationState and the | 267 |
TOTALITARIANISM | 303 |
The Totalitarian Movement | 341 |
Organization | 364 |
Ideology and Terror | 460 |
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