![]() ![]() ![]() Arendt believed that such a development marked a grotesque departure from all that had come before. ![]() Nothing in the nineteenth century-indeed, nothing in human history-could have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humanity were just one individual. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ is an indispensable book for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. ![]()
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