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Origins of Totalitarianism
Library / Text
Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · 1951, 1963
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Study guide
The full study guide for this topic is being prepared. Meanwhile, here is the curator's guide below.
Curator's notes
- Why it matters
- "The banality of evil": great harm done by ordinary people following orders without thinking.
- Use in training and coaching
- Ethics and compliance training: obedience versus thinking
- Connects to
- Kafka; Weber; Milgram experiments
- What to read
- Eichmann, final chapter and epilogue
- Text (date)
- Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism; Eichmann in Jerusalem (1951, 1963)
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