La nature du totalitarisme

By Hannah Arendt

1990

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Ce livre rassemble trois textes de Hannah Arendt qui se situent dans le sillage immédiat de son ouvrage majeur, Les origines du totalitarisme (1951), qu'il contribue à éclairer et à prolonger. Deux articles de 1953, " Compréhension et politique " et " Religion et politique ", développent une analyse plus fine du phénomène totalitaire. Le second texte récuse la représentation du communisme comme " religion séculière ". Le texte central, " La nature du totalitarisme ", est la matière des conférences que Hannah Arendt donna en 1954 à la New School for Social Research. L’auteur prolonge, d’un point de vue philosophique, les réflexions du Système totalitaire et poursuit l’analyse de la terreur et du caractère singulier du totalitarisme. Ce livre rassemble aussi des documents préparatoires antérieurs : le " Projet de recherche sur les camps de concentration ", un synopsis des Origines du totalitarisme, et le plan de cet ouvrage tel que l’auteur le concevait en 1946. La préface de Michelle-Irène Brudny-de Launay a pour double objet de retracer la réception originale de l’œuvre de Hannah Arendt en France et d’analyser l’importance comme les limites de la conception arendtienne du totalitarisme, en la situant au sein d’une problématique désormais générale.

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Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).