![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A sociologist who is a critical admirer of Arendt, Baehr looks sympathetically at Arendt's objections to social science and shows that her complaints were in many respects justified. It focuses on Hannah Arendt's claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued it. This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It aims to tear down the established order in its entirety, and to remake the world in its image of utopia. Far from being "liberal" in the classical sense, woke ideology is akin to the Jacobinism that fueled the communist revolutions in Russia, China, and elsewhere. Then the emergence of "woke" ideology and its metastasis from academia into the entire social body set me on a mission to understand the rise of totalitarianism-because I believed, and still do, that "wokism" is totalitarian. Ever since my encounters with the rabid social justice warriors as a professor at New York University-recounted in my book Springtime for Snowflakes-I began to note, with no little alarm, the totalitarian character of the contemporary Left. When I first encountered Political Ponerology, I had been struggling to understand just how totalitarian leftism had effectively taken over the United States of America. It is especially crucial today, when totalitarianism has once again emerged, this time in the West, where it is affecting nearly every aspect of life, including especially the life of the mind. Political Ponerology is essential reading for concerned thinkers and all sufferers of past and present totalitarianism. This strange and provocative book argues that totalitarianism is the result of the extension of psychopathology from a group of psychopaths to the entire body politic, including its political and economic systems. Ćobaczewski, edited by Harrison Koehli, is now available on Amazon. A new edition of Political Ponerology, by Andrew M. ![]()
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