Hannah Arendt can help us understand today's far-right populism

Hannah Arendt can help us understand today's far-right populism

Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) rocketed when Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election. Nearly a year into the second Trump administration – and 50 years since Arendt’s death in December 1975 – it seems an apposite time to revisit the book and see what light it sheds on 2025. […] The post Hannah Arendt can help us understand today’s far-right populism appeared first on Asia Times.

How Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism - Rationale Magazine

Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) rocketed when Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election. Nearly a year into the second Trump administration – and 50 years since Arendt’s death in December 1975 – it seems like an apposite time to revisit the book and see what light it sheds on 2025. The book is brilliant but difficult, combining history, political science and philosophy in a way that can be very disorientat…