The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, 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. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).

出版者:Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich

作者:Hannah Arendt

页数:576

出版时间:1973-3-21

价格:USD 19.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780156701532

图书标签:汉娜·阿伦特极权主义政治学政治哲学政治社会学哲学阿伦特

Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first to recognize that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. “With the Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt emerges as the most original and profound-therefore the most valuable-political theoretician of our times” (New Leader). Index.

读后感

几圈主义社会，在《极权主义起源》中是特指斯大林，希特勒时期的苏联和纳粹德国。但由于资料不全，作者没有把髦责董时期的总过加入。这绝对是一个错误，因为髦责董时代的体制和国民符合书中极权主义社会的所有特征，具体来说，要想在这个社会下生存下去，你需要： 1： 永远跟...  

汉娜•阿伦特这本经典长期得到知识圈的推荐，很多人谈到极权主义，已经言必称汉娜•阿伦特。 这部经典主要缺陷是成书年代太早，资料与档案相对匮乏，阿伦特也没有在极权体制下生活的经历；这种类型的著作也不宜由哲学家来完成，因为极权体更多依靠军事、组织、宣传、控制...  

也许正是她的双重边缘身份（经历过纳粹时期的德国犹太人，又是女性），汉娜•阿伦特对广义上的男权象征（暴力、极权主义、革命）特别敏感，《极权主义的起源》则是其集大成的代表作。虽然书中研究的主要对象是纳粹德国和斯大林时期的苏联，但作者想要强调，这并非两个国家或...  

汉娜•阿伦特这本经典长期得到知识圈的推荐，很多人谈到极权主义，已经言必称汉娜•阿伦特。 这部经典主要缺陷是成书年代太早，资料与档案相对匮乏，阿伦特也没有在极权体制下生活的经历；这种类型的著作也不宜由哲学家来完成，因为极权体更多依靠军事、组织、宣传、控制...  

用户评价

主要阅读了反犹主义与托塔李天王主义部分，帝国主义因为时间紧张只是翻了一下。在笔记里，阿伦特的确在论证逻辑上不是很清晰，其主要是在反复自己的洞见，但这些洞见可信度却值得再斟酌——不过至少用它们的确可以解释其中的现象与问题。阅读原文也没有太多难度，其写作不复杂，重点也很清楚，倒是读中文译本让人有点崩溃，抓不住点。总体而言，能看出阿伦特的市民与资产阶级的不同。最后一章上升到对人普遍状况的分析，而第一章以驳论方式要求恢复人对自身行动的义务。反犹主义基于双重的误读，而托塔李天王主义在于给予那些不被社会接纳的人以幻想，从而让破碎的现实生活富有内在连贯性，而其中具体的组织结构与暴力等等都有可观之处，实在不禁联想到**现状

well, totalitarianism is NOT authoritarianism. Better not apply the theory in this book to China, dear Doufriends...

读她很佩服，但总有哪里膈应得慌，一时说不出。

花了大钱精打印的=。=

太長了，以後再讀