Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT | W33W Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hybrid/In-Person)

W33W Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hybrid/In-Person)

In-Person | Available (Membership Required)

Level: N/A

Date: 1/15/2025-2/26/2025

Time: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM EST on Wed

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W33W Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hybrid/In-Person)

In-Person | Available (Membership Required)

Course Description

[NEW COURSE] Arendt, writing after the horrors of World War II, identified a new type of government: totalitarianism. She treats Nazism and Communism, not as emblems of the Right and Left, but as similar movements for total domination through propaganda, terror, and camps. We will mix history and theory and trace totalitarianism’s origins from anti-semitism and imperialism. Discussion, Lecture, Reading

Special Notes

*This registration item is HYBRID/IN-PERSON, which means that you can attend either in-person or via Zoom.*

Required Supplies

Optional Text: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Instructor

Thomas Low

Tom Low is neither a professional philosopher nor an academic but has been a serious reader since his teens. He has led courses at Osher on figures as diverse as Plato, Montaigne, Thoreau, William James, Marcus Aurelius, and the great economists.