Hannah Arendt is one of the world's most profound political
scientists: her scholarship is sterling, her philosophical-
psychological insights staggering; two of her books Origins of
Totalitariansim and Human Condition are among the few significant
works in her field and our era. Whenever she publishes, it is an
event. And although she is not at her best in this close study of
the American and French revolutions and their meaning for the 20th
century, still on every page we are in the presence of a mind of
high individuality, great interest and intellectual integrity. It
is her thesis that the Founding Fathers were faithful above all
else to the ideal of freedom as the end and justification of
revolution and thereby they assured its success. On the other hand,
the Rousseau-Robespierre misalliance, the idea of the general will
binding the many into the one, the transformation of the Rights of
Man into the rights of Sans-Culotte, not only ultimately led to the
Reign of Terror but also the whole catalogue of post-1792
ideological corruptions. The malhcurcux became the enrages, then
the Industrial Revolution's miserables. And the Marxist Leninist
acceptance of the new absolutism, which was done in the name of
historical necessity and the name of the proletariat as a "natural"
force, subsequently absolved both tyranny and blood baths as stages
along the way... A powerful indictment and illumination, both
immediate and enduring. (Kirkus Reviews)
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