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Totalitarianism as a Non-State

On Hannah Arendt’s Debt to Franz Neumann

Vicky Iakovou

Hellenic Open University, viakovou{at}tellas.gr

The objective of this article is to show that Hannah Arendt’s understanding of totalitarianism is indebted to the analysis of National Socialism elaborated by Franz Neumann in Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism . It is argued that Arendt adopted the central thesis of Neumann according to which Nazi Germany is a ‘non-state’ and that this thesis as well as its presuppositions are discernible in her overall approach, developed in The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Key Words: Franz Neumann • Hannah Arendt • Nazi Germany • state • totalitarianism

European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4, 429-447 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1474885109337999
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