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Hannah Arendt: the Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (LOA #389) by Hannah Arendt (2025, Hardcover)

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Hannah Arendt: the Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (LOA #389) by Hannah Arendt (2025, Hardcover)

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PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.

ISBN-101598538063

ISBN-139781598538069

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Book TitleHannah Arendt: the Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (Loa #389)

Number of Pages900 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicModern / 20th Century, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Political

Publication Year2025

GenrePolitical Science, Philosophy, History

AuthorHannah Arendt

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight20 oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Synopsis"The rise of totalitarian governments," Hannah Arendt wrote "is the central event of our world." In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt confronted the abyss of the Holocaust and the Stalinist purges and linked the Nazi and Soviet regimes together as manifestations of a new form of political rule that sought absolute control over all aspects of life. In so doing she transformed our understanding of the political pathologies of modernity with a book that has itself become a central event of our times. This is the first annotated edition of Arendt's monumental work, presenting the complete text of the final authorized version and, as a special feature, two chapters dropped from earlier editions that reveal how the book evolved in response to unfolding political events. Arendt's observations and insights are indispensable in a twentieth-first-century world rife with authoritarian threats. The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts., A deluxe expanded edition of the masterpiece of political philosophy that transformed how the world thinks about fascism and authoritarianism Includes two fascinating chapters that were later cut and are available in no other edition In 1951, a monumental book by a relatively unknown German-Jewish émigré addressed the terrifying new mode of political organization underlying the twin horrors of Stalinism and Nazism. Herself a refugee from Nazi persecution, Hannah Arendt sought, from her exile in New York City, to answer the unfathomable questions raised by the Soviet gulag and the Holocaust: How could there be such barbarism in the midst of civilization? How had governments exerted such absolute control over citizens, terrorizing them and enlisting them to commit atrocities on their behalf? Arendt's historical and cultural analyses extend to a thorough examination of nineteenth-century antisemitism in Europe, including a trenchant account of the Dreyfus Affair in France and brilliant insights into imperialism, racism, and their role in totalitarianism's rise in the 1920s and 1930s. Arendt contends that totalitarianism, as a political system, is now embedded in contemporary life and is, as she would later remark, "the central event of our world." Her clear-eyed warning that totalitarianism is not merely a historical episode but is rather a permanent feature of modernity and beyond--a danger never to be fully eradicated, and a continual temptation for anti-democratic demagogues--makes Arendt, a half-century after her death, a preeminent thinker and political philosopher for the twenty-first century. The Library of America edition of this indispensable and influential work, based on the final version she revised in her lifetime, also restores to print Arendt's "Concluding Remarks" to the 1951 first American edition and a chapter on the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt of 1956, both of which were cut from later editions. The first annotated edition of Origins , the volume contains concise and thorough glosses on Arendt's many historical and cultural references, and its Chronology provides a detailed portrait of her remarkable life.