New York: The Viking Press. 1965. 149 p. Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the...
New York: A Harvest Book; Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1968. ISBN: 0156588900, 9780156588904. Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. If one searches for a unifying theme in this collection, the only candidate is the question: How does one...
Harvest Book, 1973. — 576 p. 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...
Transl. from the German by Ruth Hein. With Annotations by Kurt P. Tauber and the Translator. — Middletovm, CN: Wesleyan University Press, . — 124 p. Definitions and Comparisons Life Under Totalitarian Rule Excursus on the Concept of Politics Totalitarian Rule and Politics Thought Within the Mode of the Totalitarian Claim Totalitarian Rule and the State The Limits of...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 536 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-89796-9; ISBN13: 978-0-521-72397-8; ISBN13: 978-0-511-46355-6. In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. — 316 p. — ISBN10: 0804781303; ISBN13: 978-0804781305. The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as A. James Gregor argues in this book, they themselves functioned as religions. He presents an intellectual history of the rise of these political religions, tracing a set of ideas...
Translated by Jodi Bruhn. — London: Routledge, 2005. — 424 p. — ISBN10: 0714685291; ISBN13: 978-0714685298 — (Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions. Book 1). We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 321 p. — ISBN10: 0230252060; ISBN13: 978-0230252066. Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its particular, inherited character. The...
London: Mercury Books, 1961. — 377 p. This study is an attempt to show that concurrently with the liberal type of democracy there emerged from the same premises in the eighteenth century a trend towards what we propose to call the totalitarian type of democracy. These two currents have existed side by side ever since the eighteenth century. The tension between them has...
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