'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment The short answer is that we,too,live in dark times'Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Naziand Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about thefragility of freedom,exploring how propaganda,scapegoats,terror andpolitical isolation all aided the slide towards total domination.'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four'The New York Times'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the'banality of evil'has become a surprise bestseller'Guardian
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241316757Number of pages: 752Weight: 511 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm
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A kind of nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-FourHow could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment The short answer is that we,too,live in dark times,even if they are different and perhaps less dark,and Origins raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can leadPerhaps Arendt's most profound legacy is in establishing that one has to consider oneself political as part of the human condition. What are your political acts,and what politics do they serveHer masterpiece...Arendt's inquiry into the elements of totalitarian domination teaches us we must never let go of the fear of totalitarian governmentA vivid account of the system of concentration and death camps that Arendt believed defined totalitarian ruleRemarkable for us,no doubt,is Arendt's conviction that only philosophy could have saved those millions of livesHer greatest work is this 1951 classic...More than any thinker it was Hannah Arendt who identified how those movements of ideas,racial theories,people and methods take place,showing how they fused with other forces - most notably European antisemitism - to shape and ultimately disfigure the twentieth century
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