'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. 'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four' The New York Times'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the 'banality of evil' has become a surprise bestseller' Guardian
CONTRIBUTORS: Hannah ArendtEAN: 9780241316757COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 511 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books LtdDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & TotalitarianismWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
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Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Social and cultural history
A kind of nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four, 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, Perhaps Arendt's most profound legacy is in establishing that one has to consider oneself political as part of the human condition. What are your political acts, and what politics do they serve?, Her masterpiece ... Arendt's inquiry into the elements of totalitarian domination teaches us we must never let go of the fear of totalitarian government, A vivid account of the system of concentration and death camps that Arendt believed defined totalitarian rule
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in 1975.
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'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. 'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four' The New York Times'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the 'banality of evil' has become a surprise bestseller' Guardian
CONTRIBUTORS: Hannah ArendtEAN: 9780241316757COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 511 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books LtdDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & TotalitarianismWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Social and cultural history
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in 1975.
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