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Article: On the origins of a new totalitarianism.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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OVER the past three days, we have been considering the relevance for the present time of Hannah Arendt's monumental work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published 50 years ago, the first book of a then almost unknown 45-year-old emigre German Jewish woman who went on to become the major political thinker of her generation. But during this conference we have, of course, all been thinking about this book in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and now in the shadow of a military operation conducted by the American government against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the terrorist network headquartered there. For the last part ...