THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. Early printing. Cloth. 1st edition, early printing (without Harcourt's '1st edition' denotation". A Very Good + copy in Very Good dust jacket. Tall 8vo., xv, 477 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title on spine in black dust jscket, with title on a dark purple field. The price-clipped dust jacket has edge wear and a couple of small, closed tears along its edges. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Very Good + / Very Good. Item #36819
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Her first work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. She would eventually coin the controversial term “banality of evil”. Critics often place this work in the top 50-100 books written in the 20th century.
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