A Critical Analysis of Totalitarianism based on Hannah Arendt

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This study delves into the analysis of totalitarianism in Hannah Arendt in order to discuss the significance of political ethics. After the Second World War, humanity has developed the democratic society. Yet, this democracy has been threatened by totalitarianism with various political parts such as extreme right wing politicians and fundamental religious leaders. They have been trying to manipulate society as they have developed various political ideologies like racism, sexism, nationalism, and so on. In this way, they have been trying to make their own political propaganda in order to oppress people and to obtain their political benefits as they have excluded minority groups, other ethnic groups and refugees. Similarly, totalitarianism, during the Second World War, has showed political phenomenon that it had oppressed humanity as it had developed its own political propaganda. This paper argues how totalitarianism manipulates people to dehumanize individuals, how it overuses its power in terms of total dominion, and how it became ‘a’ or ‘the’ radical evil. Thus, this research delves into the political phenomena of totalitarianism as analyzes Hannah Arendt’s observation of totalitarianism. This study ultimately aims at finding a way to overcome totalitarian tendency in politics through the understanding of the origin of totalitarianism.

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