Hannah Arendt
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Philosophy of History
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Synopsis:
  • Decline of the European nation state due to global capitalism and colonialism
  • The crisis of the nation state leads to the delegitimation of political institutions
  • The appeal of totalitarian ideologies, with their capacity to mobilize huge number of people, rests upon the devastation of the ordered and stable societies in which those people once lived
  • Totalitarian ideologies offer explanations for the events of the past (what caused the evil that destroyed the old order) and thus for the present, and offer a reassuring path to reestablishing order and stability in the future
  • New imperial ideologies
  • Pan-Germanic (Nazism)
  • Pan-Slavic (Soviet Union)

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