Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism in its Original Context

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ID6260081
AuthorsAlfons Sollner (Technical University of Chemnitz, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume3
Issue2
Pages219-238
Publication date2004-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1474885104041048
OpenAlexW2043158420
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited1

The objective of this article is to contribute to an understanding of Hannah Arendt’s special place in present-day political theory by means of a contrast between her Origins of Totalitarianism and four important political science studies of National Socialism and totalitarianism, three written by authors who shared the status of involuntary emigrant with Arendt, that are offered as constituting the original context of her work. A critical appreciation of the seminal works by Ernst Fraenkel, Franz L. Neumann, Sigmund Neumann, and Carl Joachim Friedrich and Zbigniew Brezinski, with special emphasis on questions of method, opens the way to a reconsideration of the distinctly philosophical character of Arendt’s work, and its shocking challenges to the scientific orientations of political science

Character (mathematics · Communism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Scientific socialism · Socialism · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty

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