Hannah Arendt
In Our Time: Philosophy
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What Is It Today?
She talks about how although notism had been defeated, and by the time the third edition came out, Stalinism had gone. She writes very beautifully, but she's quite hard to read. As Frisbee said, it's not quite clear. She's a philosopher or a political scientist. But UK's an analytical philosophy, she doesn't fit into that at all. She really doesn't. So there weren't regard as a philosopher from scratch. And so you can't just think totalitarianism is this big dark cloud that descends on other histories and other places. It's always the potential elements of it, always there.
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