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The Origins of Totalitarianism

Arendt, Hannah
Publisher:  The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, USA
Year Published:  1966   First Published:  1958
Pages:  520pp  
Resource Type:  Book

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Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Enlarged Edition

Part I: Antisemitism

Chapter One: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense

Two: The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism

I. The Equivocalities of Emancipation and the Jewish State Banker
II. Early Antisemitism
III. The first Antisemitic Parties
IV. Leftist Antisemitism
V. The Golden Age of Security

Three: The Jews and Society
I. Between Pariah and Parvenu
II. The Potent Wizard
III. Between Vice and Crime

Four: The Dreyfus Affair
I. The Facts of the Case
II. The Third Republic and French Jewry
III. Army and Clergy Against the Republic
IV. The People and the Mob
V. The Jews and the Dreyfusards
VI. The Pardon and Its Significance

Part II: Imperialism

Five: The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie
I. Expansion and the Nation-State
II. Power and the Bourgeoisie
III. The Alliance Between Mob and Capital

Six: Race-Thinking Before Racism
I. A "Race" of Aristocrats Against a "Nation" of Citizens
II. Race Unity as a Substitute for National Emancipation
III. The New Key to History
IV. The "Rights of Englishmen" vs. the Rights of Men


Seven: Race and Bureaucracy
I. The Phantom World of the Dark Contient
II. Gold and Race
III. The Imperialist Character


Eight: Continental Imperialism: The Pan-Movements
I. Tribal Nationalism
II. The Inheritance of Lawlessness
III. Party and Movement

Nine: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man
I. The "Nation of Minorities" and the Stateless People
II. The Perplexities of the Rights of Man


Part III: Totalitarianism

Ten: A Classless Society
I. The Masses
II. The Temporary Alliance
III. Between the Mob and the Elite

Eleven : The Totalitarian Movement
I. Totalitarian Propaganda
II. Totalitarian Organization

Twelve: Totalitarianism in Power
I. The So-called Totalitarian State
II. The Secret Police
III. The Domination

Thirteen: Ideology and Terror
A Novel form of Government

Fourteen: Epilogue: Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution
I. Russia after Stalin's Death
II. The Hungarian Revolution
III. The Satellite System

Index

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