Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (LOA #389)
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…