Le Livre de La Description Des Pays; Pub. Pour La Premiere Fois Avec Une Introduction Et Des Notes Et Suivi de L'Itineraire Brugeois, de La Table de V (Paperback)

from behemothing

I am on the fence about much of this book, but I keep coming back to "The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man" as so useful, so I can't deny the four.

from RajivC

The first thing that I will say is this: This is a difficult book to read. Hannah Arendt uses exceptionally long and convoluted sentences, which you must unravel slowly. It is only when you do this that you can make sense of what she writes. She divided the book into three sections: - The Jewis...

from rivkat

Welp, this seemed topical. Lots of people have recently discussed Arendt's explanation of why totalitarians lie and change positions so readily-because the point isn't truth, the point is to destroy truth and law so that only chance separates the oppressed from the oppressors. (Orwell's 1984 is q...

from MarcusBastos

Totalitarianism is a human enterprise difficult to explain but possible to comprehend. This work of Hannah Arendt helps the reader in understanding this human "achievement". Pure and absolute evil doesn't appear suddenly, it has its roots in history. Arendt examines the genesis and the developmen...

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This was an absolutely stunning read. Arendt goes into great detail about. nearly, all elements of totalitarianism from its inception to its insidious effects. She provides exemplars which touch on the basis of the human psyche and reinforces them with a breadth of research that is truly stunning...