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This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. A sociologist who is a critical admirer of Arendt, Baehr looks sympathetically at Arendt's objections to social science and shows that her complaints were in many respects justified. Avoiding broad disciplinary endorsements or dismissals, Baehr reconstructs the theoretical and political stakes of Arendt's encounters with prominent social scientists such as David Riesman, Raymond Aron, and Jules Monnerot. In presenting the first systematic appraisal of Arendt's critique of the social sciences, Baehr examines what it means to see an event as unprecedented. Furthermore, he adapts Arendt and Aron's philosophies to shed light on modern Islamist terrorism and to ask whether it should be categorized alongside Stalinism and National Socialism as totalitarian.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences
• Author: Peter Baehr
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780804756501
• ISBN: 0804756503
• ID: 04718292
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 468 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 160 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. March 2010

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