Hannah Arendt was a prominent German-American Jewish political theorist who, after escaping Nazi Germany, became a renowned expert on tyranny, totalitarianism, and the history of the Holocaust. She is best remembered for the books The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Snyder notes that, in the internet age, Arendt’s belief that “facts [always] overcome falsehoods in a free society” may no longer hold, and what Arendt defined as totalitarianism—“the erasure of the difference between private and public life”—may become the norm.
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What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life.
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Hannah Arendt Quotes in On Tyranny
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Chapter 14
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What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life.
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