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Article: Arendt's concept and description of totalitarianism.
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- June 22, 2002
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THE enormous complexity of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism arises in large measure from its interweaving of a concept of totalitarianism with a description of the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin. (1) Today, after the disappearance of those regimes, the former concern may seem the more important; yet to neglect the reason that Arendt wrote her book--the fact that Nazism and Stalinism appeared in the world in the second quarter of the twentieth century as events without historical precedent--is to risk conceptual emptiness. (2) The intertwining and overlapping of concept and description have given rise to difficult questions and genuine confusion. ...
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