The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
|---|---|
| Published | 1951 |
| Pages | 527 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Arendt traces Nazism and Stalinism back through nineteenth-century antisemitism and imperialism, and argues that what made total domination possible was not ideology alone but the production of atomised, superfluous people with no place to stand. |
Where I heard about it
- My own reading list — saved as a bare Amazon link to my “Books To Read” note, sometime between 2024 and 2026.
- Prof. Mira (@mira_is_psyched) — recommended in a BookTok video of political-psychology reading.
Connections
- Totalitarianism — the subject; this book largely defined the term.
- Ideological Family Tree — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
- Liberalism · Democracy — what Arendt is measuring the failure against.
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