Why We Should All Read Hannah Arendt Now
Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy
by Lyndsey Stonebridge for Literary Hub
‘It’s like a novel, Mary McCarthy observed of the completed edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt and McCarthy had clashed in 1945 when they first met at a New York party hosted by Partisan Review’s Philip Rahv, McCarthy’s ex-lover. Another fierce wit who rarely suffered fools gladly, McCarthy, when they were introduced, made a sarcastic quip about Hitler’s unpopularity in Paris…’
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