- Paperback: 527 pages
- Publisher: Harcourt Publishers Ltd College Publishers; New Ed edition (1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0156701537
- ISBN-13: 978-0156701532
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.4 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Publisher: Cleveland : World Pub. Co. Publication date: 1958 Subjects: Totalitarianism Imperialism Antisemitism Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you have a couple of months to spare and an interest not only in the Totalitarian regimes in the former Soviet Union and Germany, but also a desire to learn about antisemitism and imperialism then this is the book for you. If you just want to know about Totalitarianism, get the volume only containing that portion. This is an incredibly dense and comprehensive history that takes both patience and time to wade through. The journey is well worth it, though, as Hannah Arendt shows the incredibly destructive nature of all that makes one human under a totalitarian rule. It isn't a fun read, but definitely a rewarding one.
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Arendt belongs to a class of scholars that only seem to appear intermittently throughout history. Her capacity for profound analysis is nowhere better displayed than in this volume. While scholarship has moved on, especially in connection with antisemitism and the social psychology of authoritarianism, her work on totalitarianism stands as one of the finest exegeses of its time. Her overriding concern to equate social progress with socialism and inter alia moral progress makes the book invaluable for those young people today who wonder what happened to faith in political ideologies. I first encountered this work over twenty years ago, and when I came across it again recently, it was still as magnetic and wonderfully refreshing as ever.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There is not one paragraph in this book, particularly in the chapters on imperialism and totalitarianism, that does not apply in some way to the woes of our world today. Thus it is essential reading for understanding the historical process of secrecy, militias, gulags, secret services, military insensitivity, lying governments, false scientfic evidence, media corruption, racism, manipulation, police state politics, demonstrations and ideologies. She warned; we have not listened. The apathy Arendt wrote about is indeed much worse. A great woman; a great thinker. The introduction by Pulizer prize winner Samantha Power (A Problem from Hell) is a bonus.
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A Discourse On Monsters Of Conceit
TOOT is Arendt's heavily opinionated opus on Antisemitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism. On Antisemitism, Arendt opines that Europe's Jews had an active hand to play in being... Read more
Published 18 months ago by demola
Mistitled, long winded and off target
Having read Arendt's book on the Eichmann trial, I thought this would be an interesting and thought provoking read, as it appeared likely to provide some deeper insights into the... Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2009 by birchden
Brilliant thinking but very heavy going.
A rare book which left me thinking "now I understand".
It is a very detailed analysis of the rise of totalitarian regimes in 20th century Europe. Read more
It is a very detailed analysis of the rise of totalitarian regimes in 20th century Europe. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2008 by PC
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