Hannah Arendt and the limits of total domination: the Holocaust, plurality, and resistance

In: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Abstract

Responding to the increasingly influential role of Hannah Arendt's political philosophy in recent years, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance, critically engages with Arendt's understanding of totalitarianism. According to Arendt, the main goal of totalitarianism was total domination; namely, the virtual eradication of human legality, morality, individuality, and plurality. This attempt, in her view, was most fully realized in the concentration camps, which served as the major ""laboratories"" for the regime. While Arendt focused on the per