W33W Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Zoom)

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1/15/2025-2/26/2025
1:30 PM-3:00 PM EST on Wed
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W33W Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (Zoom)

Zoom | Available (Membership Required)

[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

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  • Optional Text: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

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.