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Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

Such a #totalizing claim to be empowered to “fit #reality to their lies” is precisely the capacity that #Arendt finds in #totalitarian movements before they actually attain the power to do so. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and faction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between #true and (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”  … 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books