Hannah Arendt's Philosophy on Totalitarianism

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  • In 1950s, the philosopher, Hannah Arendt, was a woman who thought intensively about the nature of totalitarianism, and later identified that there is but one thing necessary for a totalitarian regime to have success. A thing that in fact also explained why, after thousands of years of political activity and social contentions, that totalitarianism has only just appeared in the 20th century.
    Hannah Arendt explains that this thing was a dynamic of isolation and loneliness.

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  • @someguywhosmiles
    @someguywhosmiles 10 місяців тому +17

    I am a French person that has a lot of trouble understanding English. Yet your video is clear and I understood every piece of information perfectly. Good job !

  • @DFM3333
    @DFM3333 6 місяців тому +8

    ❤Hannah Arendt explains the current March to totalitarianism ❤

  • @oluwajonathan5585
    @oluwajonathan5585 4 місяці тому +6

    I needed to write an essay about totalitarianism in my uni, and this video helped me a lot. Thank you so much!

    • @arod1766
      @arod1766 27 днів тому

      The unvax should lose their job, their liberty. Easier to understand the fake plandemic

  • @stellabebes3999
    @stellabebes3999 7 місяців тому +7

    6months later and this is sounding eerily like my country now…

  • @xerxesbros
    @xerxesbros 5 місяців тому +1

    what a great video with such edits and visuals!
    thanks for making this Instructive content❤

  • @robertdabob8939
    @robertdabob8939 Рік тому +5

    That mass mindedness around an ideology also represents the image of an archetype of the collective unconscious, and in that understanding you find the solution - become more conscious/individuate. The more who do the less destructive the outcome.

  • @vecxio8070
    @vecxio8070 7 місяців тому +1

    Excellent video, very easy to follow along and understand. Thanks for your effort.

  • @stephenl9463
    @stephenl9463 4 місяці тому +1

    Excellent summation. I’m attending a weekly online reading through of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism. Organized by Roger Berkowitz of the Arendt center at BARD college.
    You’re very succinct with some of the major themes. We’re up to the Totalitarian Movement.
    With regard to Lonliness/Solitude, we haven’t come across that yet. Perhaps it’s up ahead. I’m happy to hear her thoughts on the dynamic between the two. I think it’s well established that solitude is healthy and fulfilling, whereas lonliness is unhealthy and empty.
    I’m struck by how much Arendt’s thinking on the need for the individual to be part of the mass is in line with her contemporary Elias Canetti, in his major work, Crowds and Power. He explores the need to join from a more visceral perspective. He won the Noble Prize for literature for the book which took him 20’years to write.

  • @thierryhorrobin317
    @thierryhorrobin317 5 місяців тому +1

    Excellent piece of content. It helped me for a research for high school and it was a good way to understand my subject. Thank you very much!

  • @Deepfake820
    @Deepfake820 Рік тому +3

    When truth becomes subjective.....
    My truth

  • @orlawatson6916
    @orlawatson6916 2 місяці тому +2

    great summary of my univeristy lecture

  • @hmmno2210
    @hmmno2210 Рік тому +5

    Also the collective loneliness results in a society with people without a sense of belonging and love for their community, so they will not be willing to fight the power, and totalitarian regime will be able to take hold. Any opposition to the regime requires some risks and sacrifices in the name of something greater. "Lonely" people are more likely to just fend for themselves and keep their heads down.
    Source: living in Russia

  • @isamkamel
    @isamkamel Місяць тому

    Thank you!

  • @Jamie-ur6xy
    @Jamie-ur6xy Місяць тому +1

    good stuff !!

  • @AaronLit
    @AaronLit Рік тому +3

    This is really solid 🤌

  • @pixelricebowl
    @pixelricebowl 14 днів тому

    Thanks for this helpful overview. I wonder what Arendt would think of social media / smartphone addiction as a means by which technology companies exploit feelings of loneliness in order to maximize algorithmically driven ad revenue.

  • @keziahspaine7574
    @keziahspaine7574 4 місяці тому

    What's the background music at 5:09...sorry, brilliant video as well I love The Origins of Totalitarianism 😅

  • @knighthoodMan
    @knighthoodMan 8 місяців тому +1

    Great

  • @carltonjean2267
    @carltonjean2267 Місяць тому

    This is great man

  • @shuoyuanchen7800
    @shuoyuanchen7800 Рік тому +3

    hold on, people are less and less connected nowadays. We are feeling more lonely whatsoever. And isn't breaking all social connections the main drive of captalism? Every social identity is slowly getting reduced to only one identity, a buyer. Are you saying we are heading towards totalitarianism, inevitably?

    • @TurtleneckPhilosophy
      @TurtleneckPhilosophy  Рік тому +3

      I can't say for sure, I'm skeptical of anything besides death as being claimed as inevitable.
      Also, these were more of the ideas of Hannah Arendt that I was conveying and not my own.

    • @feliscorax
      @feliscorax Рік тому +2

      The late Sheldon Wolin suggested as much. He called the phenomenon ‘inverted totalitarianism’.

    • @poetradio
      @poetradio 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@feliscoraxI'll look into that author. Other authors have definitely taken inspiration from Arendt to examine capitalism and the current technocratic system generally as totalitarian. In both cases, control and automatic processes become decisive, and the will of any subject from individuals to societies is made superfluous. If you read French, a nice book is "Hannah Arendt, le totalitarisme et le monde contemporain"

    • @1LaOriental
      @1LaOriental 6 місяців тому

      Mathias Desmet on Mass Formation.

    • @1LaOriental
      @1LaOriental 6 місяців тому

      I was going to mention Sheldon Wolin’s Inverted Totalitarianism.

  • @ashekinmostafa
    @ashekinmostafa Місяць тому

    SOLITUDE

  • @st4rgirrll
    @st4rgirrll 5 місяців тому

    it's sounding eerily like a country in the headlines rn...

  • @VictorSanchez-kx5hb
    @VictorSanchez-kx5hb 2 місяці тому

    Social Media pretty much is doing that!

  • @richwilliams1863
    @richwilliams1863 2 місяці тому

    Would you say that putting our faith in the power of the market to deliver good outcomes is an ideology or a grand narrative? Sounds like it verges on a religion to me. Maybe the lonely people in the comments want to have a guess?

    • @TurtleneckPhilosophy
      @TurtleneckPhilosophy  2 місяці тому

      I'd say perhaps it's a bit of both, more the former than the latter, though, given the consumerISM that characterizes one of our culture's core values.

  • @1LaOriental
    @1LaOriental 6 місяців тому +2

    Divide and conquer. USA.

    • @erior9662
      @erior9662 5 місяців тому +2

      You hit the nail on the head. I'm half way through Hannah's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and the parallels to America are frightening, especially with the support of Hamas in our "higher institutions."

    • @1LaOriental
      @1LaOriental 5 місяців тому

      @@erior9662 Good for you! I'm thinking of reading it as well.

  • @aal-e-ahmadhussain3123
    @aal-e-ahmadhussain3123 3 місяці тому

    How is western liberalism not totalitarian?

  • @dwwolf4636
    @dwwolf4636 Місяць тому +2

    You mean like Sustainability, Equality and Inclusion ?

    • @MaxEuler-ds1ep
      @MaxEuler-ds1ep Місяць тому

      A Totalitarianistic Society is neither Equal nor Inclusive, please sir what’s your obsession with totalitarianism? (I am assuming u have a pro totalitarianistic stance here, as i perceived from your comment) Are u aligning yourself with the masses and with an ideology which is making u have opinions contrary to ground facts, as pointed out in the video?

  • @damienflinter4585
    @damienflinter4585 8 місяців тому +1

    Enter the p£utocratic wolf in democratic fleece mode.

  • @bradjohnson4787
    @bradjohnson4787 8 місяців тому

    There are thousands upon thousands of dopes in the world!

  • @wfpnknw32
    @wfpnknw32 4 місяці тому +1

    Religion? How were religious governments or states not totalitarian. A central ideology based on unavoidable law of nature. Controlling citizens beliefs and thoughts. Expansive.

  • @SuperSlik50
    @SuperSlik50 Рік тому

    Control of the MSM?

  • @KarlMarxJaDizia
    @KarlMarxJaDizia 6 місяців тому

    Wtf, That's just wrong, I'll gladly debate, but for now, i state that this line of thought is flawed to the maximum power

    • @skateforzero357
      @skateforzero357 3 місяці тому

      I agree. To sum up that loneliness is the root cause of totalitarianism is a vast generalization, thus an erroneous argument

  • @rakeshkottu
    @rakeshkottu 29 днів тому

    Hindutva-RSS-BJP, if anyone is still in doubt.

  • @popsucks1322
    @popsucks1322 4 місяці тому

    3:47
    Clueless or hypocrite.....

  • @Beinhartwie1chopper
    @Beinhartwie1chopper Місяць тому

    Wir wollen unseren Kaiser zurück!

  • @polymathmuffin7461
    @polymathmuffin7461 5 місяців тому +4

    I admired Arendt philosophy initially, but this lady is unapologetically racist. Just read her published writings on black people and Arabs. As much as we appreciate some of these White European philosophers, we should also expose and discuss their highly privileged and discriminatory views about society and people of colour.

    • @TurtleneckPhilosophy
      @TurtleneckPhilosophy  5 місяців тому +1

      You bring up a good point. With that aside, I try to deliver the ideas of the person exclusively as they relate to the subject of the video.

    • @_Arugula_Salad_
      @_Arugula_Salad_ Місяць тому

      She’s jewish, not White European. Your comment displays great ignorance

  • @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147
    @voltairedentotalenkrieg5147 11 місяців тому +1

    Wow a J with an opinion, amazing

    • @_Arugula_Salad_
      @_Arugula_Salad_ Місяць тому

      Yes, let’s listen to this creatures lies about National Socialism. Surely it told the truth and never lied

  • @imacmill
    @imacmill День тому

    Sounds like complete rubbish to me.

  • @jackgriffin117
    @jackgriffin117 2 місяці тому

    Believing God is scientific. It’s anthropologically necessary.