Hannah Arendt’s tipification of totalitarianism

Abstract

This essay presents an extract of a research concerning the relationbetween nature and politics, emphasizing the processes of naturalization threatening human life, as they are discussed in contemporary political philosophy. Inthis work we will be focusing on Arendt’s ideas of totalitarianism and total dominion.We begin by establishing totalitarianism as a narrational category. Then wepresent the novelty in the totalitarian way of government, as well as its groundsin the pathway from the Jewish question to the radical evil. Changes relating tothe field of power are presented in the light of Arendt’s typifying elements oftotalitarianism: massification, propaganda, movement-organization, lonelinessand concentration camps.