Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism captured the essence of total domination as seen in Germany and the Soviet Union during WWII. This lecture is a good-faith attempt to explain the book and Arendt's 'origins' in full.
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00:00 Intro At the start of my research, I watched every replay of two virtual reading groups from the Hannah Arendt Center on YouTube, led by Professor Roger Berkowitz:
(There is also a topical index at this link, along with a page of Latin/German/French terms found in the book)
1:00 French Revolution & Nation-States
01:31:56 Arendt Bio & Book Concept
01:52:36 Generic Totalitarianism
02:24:10 Antisemitism Intro
02:58:28 Tocqueville Trap
03:31:11 Social Antisemitism
03:51:21 Disraeli
04:24:17 Panama, Dreyfus, Mob
05:28:48 Imperialism Intro, Emancipation of Bourgeoisie
06:12:49 Hobbes and power/expansion
07:00:17 Interlude Word Cloud
07:10:24 Boers and Bureaucracy
08:06:34 Interlude: Recapping Imperialism
08:14:05 Stateless People
09:17:14 Lonely Masses
10:05:16 Terror
10:23:08 Concluding Remarks
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