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reviewed The origins of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (Harvest Books)

Hannah Arendt: The origins of totalitarianism (1968, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was Hannah Arendt's first major work, wherein she …

Girl, Get a Better Editor!!!

I cannot express how much I love and respect Arendt's ideas while hating the convoluted way she writes in run-on sentences that need to be deciphered like it's the Rosetta Stone. In spite of its flaws and some of the logical holes many a scholar have since pointed out, it was an icon of a publication as well as the beginning of extremely important scholarly work on fascism, antisemitism, etc.