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The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Origins of Totalitarianism Hardcover - 2004

by Arendt, Hannah

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New York: Schocken Books, 2004. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 674 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
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  • Title The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Author Arendt, Hannah
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Cloth/dust jacket Octavo
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Schocken Books, New York
  • Date 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 86657
  • ISBN 9780805242256 / 0805242252
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.53 x 6.4 x 1.5 in (24.21 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Imperialism, Totalitarianism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003060749
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.53

From the publisher

HANNAH ARENDT was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was the editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and the New School for Social Research. Among her other books are The Human Condition, On Revolution, Essays in Understanding, The Jewish Writings, The Promise of Politics, Responsibility and Judgment, and The Life of the Mind. Arendt died in 1975.

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acteristic of these times, when Jewish individuals and the first small wealthy Jewish communities were more powerful than at any time in the nineteenth century, was the frankness with which their privileged status and their right to it was discussed, and the careful testimony of the authorities to the importance of their services to the state. There was not the slightest doubt or ambiguity about the connection between services rendered and privileges granted.

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“I’m more convinced than ever that this book, conclusively developed out of your clarity of vision, represents a major breakthrough for our political world, the first of its kind amid all the current talk of totalitarianism. Every politician ought to read it and understand it. If another author should follow you and put what you have grasped into a logical structure that is simple and easy to teach, one will still always have to go back to the source to participate in that power that enables others to see.”
—Karl Jaspers, in a letter to Hannah Arendt (1955)

About the author

HANNAH ARENDT was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was the editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and the New School for Social Research. Among her other books are The Human Condition, On Revolution, Essays in Understanding, The Jewish Writings, The Promise of Politics, Responsibility and Judgment, and The Life of the Mind. Arendt died in 1975.

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