German-born American political theorist whose The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) analysed the shared mechanisms of Nazi and Stalinist rule. She later wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), introducing the phrase the banality of evil to describe how ordinary bureaucratic participation could enable atrocity. She died in 1975.
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Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, analysing the shared mechanisms of Nazi and Stalinist rule.
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She later wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), introducing the phrase the banality of evil to describe how ordinary bureaucratic participation could enable atrocity.
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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.
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