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Discuss Hannah Arendt’s analysis of the role of ideology in modern totalitarian regimes.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 20 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) treats Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union as a novel form of government, and she expressly excluded Benito Mussolini's Italy. Her essay "Ideology and Terror" (1953) became the book's concluding chapter in the 1958 edition. Its argument: ideology there was not a doctrine to persuade but a…

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  • Ideology as the Logic of an Idea
  • The Laws of Nature and History
  • Ideology and Terror
  • The Social Ground: Masses and Loneliness
  • Critiques
  • Contemporary Relevance
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