Introducción a Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt has marked the political and social thought of the second half of the 20th century for her meditation on totalitarianism, embodied by Nazism and Stalinism. These two opposing regimes emerged to represent a new form of total domination, which permanently resorted to terror to achieve its goals of universal supremacy, and thereby destroyed the very human condition. The fact that this process was carried out with the effective collaboration of a large number of "normal" people led the philosopher to reflect on the "banality of evil", an expression that continues to be a source of great controversy even today. This book is the ideal introduction to discover the figure and the unclassifiable work of Arendt: rich, complex, and in which tireless optimism borders on despair.