Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences
ISBN-13:
9780804756501
ISBN-10:
0804756503
Edition:
1
Author:
Peter Baehr
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
244 pages
Category:
Political
,
Philosophy
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780804756501
ISBN-10:
0804756503
Edition:
1
Author:
Peter Baehr
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
244 pages
Category:
Political
,
Philosophy
,
Sociology
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Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (ISBN-13: 9780804756501 and ISBN-10: 0804756503), written by authors
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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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