VRG: The Origins of Totalitarianism, Ep. #1, "Introduction" & "Preface to the First Edition"

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  • @benjilugt123
    @benjilugt123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Today I am going to start following your ep. on totalitarianism as I am trying to understand better a subject on law philosophy given me University of Antwerpen. Before I forget I would like to take this opportunity and thank you for the additional knowledge I am hoping to gain with your lectures. Kind regards Amanda

  • @derafshkavian1016
    @derafshkavian1016 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much. I'm learning new things from you with this great job .

  • @chrisflakus8681
    @chrisflakus8681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you so much for this upload. I'm reading this for a class on Dictatorship and the Novel. In our own country, as we watch the second impeachment trial, her words are helping me understand totalitarianism and its origins.

  • @snowangelsinecuador9299
    @snowangelsinecuador9299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If the world is growing increasingly more globalized and isolated in nature, this seems to infer that the arc of justice is bending towards totalitarianism, i.e. Orwell was right; the world of 1984 is an inevitability. Would be interested to hear her analysis of social media and AI's role in bending this arc. As machines increasingly do more of the thinking for humans, and the more dependent we will become of them, the therefore more powerless we become as a species.

    • @toreraleyva1219
      @toreraleyva1219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sobre esas cuestiones te recomiendo leer “The human condition” ❤

    • @paulchulla5701
      @paulchulla5701 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nuts

  • @ziziroberts8041
    @ziziroberts8041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I read the first section of the book (anti-Semitism), and then I had to leave it behind in the madness of the Covid-19 lockdown in India in March 2020. Happy I found this series.

    • @finnmacdiarmid3250
      @finnmacdiarmid3250 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many people, so to say, left the virtues of this book behind during Covid-19

    • @toreraleyva1219
      @toreraleyva1219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ojalá pronto continúes tu lectura 🫰🏽

  • @mohammedjassim5136
    @mohammedjassim5136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you so much. I was reading and it was really hard for me to understand what the writer is trying to say. It is indeed a very hard book. God bless you.

  • @samuelmuiruri4704
    @samuelmuiruri4704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    very important thinker. what a terrible time to witness in world politics

  • @Limits6
    @Limits6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Where can I find more about the view of Arendt you're expounding around 9:00 about the homelessness & rootlessness of modern man. Does she have a particular chapter in another work of hers that deals with this?

    • @hamzajehangir1
      @hamzajehangir1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In her work, The Human Condition, she writes at length about the problems of modernity and lays down a theoretical framework for understanding homelessness.

    • @Limits6
      @Limits6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hamzajehangir1 how different is that from the concept of alienation tho? Guess I have to find out... thanks for the help

    • @toreraleyva1219
      @toreraleyva1219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sha has an esaay named “Comprensión y política” i dont know how Is named in spanish.

    • @toreraleyva1219
      @toreraleyva1219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Limits6la alienación sería como una pérdida de lo esencial a la especie. En este caso sería una pérdida esencial respecto de lo que nos hace seres políticos.

  • @gmf1966
    @gmf1966 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Apologies, I am enjoying the summaries and analysis theoretically. I also like the approach, but the narrator says "um" too much. It was grating on my nerves.

  • @abdurrahmanwahid7794
    @abdurrahmanwahid7794 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was reading the book. Not finished prefaces, I felt confused, and book found the book incoherent.

    • @toreraleyva1219
      @toreraleyva1219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tal vez deberías intentar leer otro texto “más fácil” como el de “Eichman en Jerusalén”

  • @jantelopez5626
    @jantelopez5626 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    is it awful of me to request a straight up audiobook reading of this book?.. get your virtual reading group to share the work and put it out? .. what is the point of writing about or discussing any of this if most of the world can't even access it at a time like this . Hannah Arendt's own words and tone matter .. you lose a lot of situated information through laying out facts like a manual.. i dont think she needs that much interpretation tbh.. we are all getting stupider and less thoughtful because we hear about everything through second hand interpretations