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Hannah Arendts Hauptwerk "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951) war ein Meilenstein in der Werkbiographie von Hannah Arendt und für die Geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch machte Arendt praktisch über Nacht zu einer öffentlichen Intellektuellen; heute gilt es als eines der bedeutendsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl Arendt nicht die erste war, die das Adjektiv "totalitär" verwendete, wenn sie von Nazideutschland oder der Sowjetunion unter Stalin sprach, sollte ihre Totalitarismustheorie auf lange Sicht die einflussreichste bleiben. Da Arendt damit in ihrer Zeit nicht nur einen akademischen Diskurs, sondern auch eine Debatte über das Wesen kommunistischer Diktaturen befeuerte, wurde das Buch in Zeiten des Kalten Kriegs bald selbst zum Politikum. Heute wiederum sind viele von Arendts Thesen von erschütternder Aktualität.
ENGLISH VERSION
"The Origins of Totalitarianism", first published in 1951, was a milestone in the professional biography of Hannah Arendt; likewise it was a milestone in the intellectual history of the 20th century. The book turned Arendt into a public intellectual virtually overnight. Though she was not the first person to use the adjective "totalitarian" when speaking of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin, she wrote the one book on totalitarianism that would, in the longue durée, become the most influential one by far. It is now considered one of the most important books of the 20th century. With it, Arendt had intervened not only in an academic discourse, but also in a highly current debate on the nature of communist rule and history which is why it soon got tangled up in Cold War politics. Today, her insights into the origins of totalitarianism have a haunting timeliness.
Program on the Website ZZF Potsdam:
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Date:
10/19/2022 12:30 - 10/20/2022 16:00
Event venue:
Freie Universität Berlin
Seminarzentrum, L116
Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26
Keynote:
Freie Universität Berlin
Hörsaal 1A
Habelschwerdter Allee 45 (Rostlaube)
14195 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
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Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
10/06/2022
Sender/author:
Marion Schlöttke
Department:
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event72631
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