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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

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Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt's origins of totalitarianism look at how hypocrisy engendered the Nazis. She argues that a double morality emerged within the bourgeois German elite of the early 20th century. In short, it is not a pull towards the value of the Nazis that made the intellectual elite give their support but a push away from hypocrisy. The Nazis were simply the opposite of what the woke capital, the bourgeois were and that's why people rallied to them.

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