Antisemitism

Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780544107977
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In the first volume of her landmark philosophical work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the rise of antisemitism in Europe.

Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the "banality of evil", it remains one of the most referenced works in studies and discussions of totalitarian movements around the world.

In this first volume, Antisemitism, Dr. Hannah Arendt traces the rise of antisemitism to Central and Western European Jewish history during the 19th century. With the appearance of the first political activity by antisemitic parties in the 1870s and 1880s, Arendt states, the machinery that led to the horrors of the Holocaust was set in motion. The Dreyfus Affair, in Arendt's view, was "a kind of dress rehearsal"—the first modern use of antisemitism as an instrument of public policy and of hysteria as a political weapon.

"The most original and profound—therefore the most valuable—political theorist of our times."—Dwight MacDonald, The New Leader

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | Q | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Authors are listed only in case of special discussion or reference. Subjects of footnotes are listed. Chapter headings and subheadings and bibliographical references are not included.

A

absolute monarchy, 14, 15 ff., 30

Action Française, 90, 92 ff., 116

Africa, 78, 79

Age of Enlightenment, see Enlightenment
Ahlwardt, Hermann, 108

Algeria, 50, 102, 111–12, 118

Alldeutscher Verband, see Pan-German League

Alliance Antijuive Universelle, 40

Alsace, 47, 103

anticlericalism, 47; in France, 95

Anti-Dreyfusards, 37, 90, 92–120 passim

antisemitic congresses, 39

antisemitic parties, xii; in Germany, 4, 38 ff.; supranational organizations, 39 f.; in Austria-Hungary, 44; in France, 45

antisemitism, explanations of, vii f.; 3–10, 86; history of, vii, xi; and nationalism, 3–4, 40, 48; Nazi brand of, 3 f., 87; in France, 4, 42, 45–50, 85, 102 f.; and nation-states, 4; in Austria-Hungary, 5, 42–45; and Jews, 7–8, 43, 46, 54, 87, 103, 120; Christian brand of, 7, 118; liberal, 20, 34; and aristocracy, 20, 31–33, 35, 46; laws of development, 25, 28, 39, 42, 54, 87; and working class, 25, 77; in Eastern Europe, 29; in Prussia, 29–35; and lower middle classes, 36 ff.; leftist, 34, 38, 42–50; in England, 70; and the pan-movements, 39; and socialists, 41; and French society, 79–88; and Third Republic, 89–120; clerical, 44, 46, 116 ff., 120; and Pan-Germanists, 44–45; in Germany, 46, 79; decline of, 50–53; and social discrimination, 54, 61, 79–88; in United States, 55; and secret societies, 76; post-World War I, 86; and Jesuits, 102, 104; and mob, 107 ff.; and imperialism, 116

Arabs, 50

aristocracy, 4, 16, 20 f.; in Germany and Prussi...