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Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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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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