"Ideology and Terror" is an essay published by Hannah Arendt in 1953. It examines the structure of totalitarian governments like Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in order to discover what is new and specific about them. Arendt uses concepts from classical political philosophy in order to show how totalitarianism inverts or destroys them and leads to political devastation.
A Jewish refugee from Germany, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) analyzed major issues of the 20th century and produced a brilliant and original political philosophy.Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 in Hanover,...
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Although she first wrote about the Holocaust even before it had acquired that name, Hannah Arendt recognized it as the central event of the twentieth century and traced its origins and its effects on ...
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt