Tag: Totalitarianism

January 2, 2024

Women’s Artistic Dissent Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia

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Free Download Brenda A. Flanagan, "Women’s Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia"
English | ISBN: 1666904724 | 2023 | 278 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
To survive Totalitarianism and retain their humanity, Czech women writers went underground to write, paint, sculpt, and create supportive communities. This book explores fiction, poetry, and life-sustaining activities of Eva Švankmajerová, "Mother of Czech Surrealism," and Eda Kriseová, journalist, fiction writer, essayist, and activist who served in President Václav Havel’s first Cabinet, among other Czech women who wrote and engaged in dissent during the years when Czechoslovakia ached under Soviet rule.

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September 21, 2023

The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Free Download The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, Nadia May, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2007 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0010BA7RE | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 23:23 h | 637 Mb
A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism," begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.
In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in the twentieth century: Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes as two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of the Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda, and the use of terror essential to this form of government. In her brilliant concluding chapter, she discusses the nature of individual isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.

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July 7, 2023

The Shadow of Totalitarianism

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Free Download Javier Burdman, "The Shadow of Totalitarianism "
English | ISBN: 1438489994 | 2022 | 207 pages | PDF | 1444 KB
The Shadow of Totalitarianism develops a new way to think about the problem of evil in politics. Beginning with the commonplace idea that the rise of totalitarianism in the twentieth century marked the emergence of a new form of evil, Javier Burdman finds early seeds of thinking about this form in Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy. Far from being an isolated object of inquiry, evil, Burdman argues, has long shaped and been central to philosophical understandings of political action and judgment. Systematically analyzing the relationship between evil, action, and judgment in the work of Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard,

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