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Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences /

This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. A sociologist who is a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baehr, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • §1. Hannah Arendt's Indictment of Social Science
  • §2. "Totalitarianism" in the Dialogue of David Riesman and Hannah Arendt
  • §3. Ideology, Terror, and the "Mysterious Margin": Raymond Aron versus Hannah Arendt
  • §4. Totalitarianism as a "Secular Religion": The Dispute Between Hannah Arendt and Jules Monnerot
  • §5. Concluding Reflections: A New Constellation of Terror
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index