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ERIC Number: EJ1086704
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
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Hannah Arendt, Education, and the Question of Totalitarianism
Spector, Hannah
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v37 n1 p89-101 2016
The aim of this paper is to consider the ways in which Arendt's writings on totalitarianism act as a warning sign for political and miseducational circumstances in the USA. Because the term totalitarianism has been used imprudently (largely in the mass media) to express repressive conditions in so-called models of democracy, this paper seeks to both clarify and raise questions concerning its meaning as a form of nation-state-sanctioned power and/or economic-technological force. This analysis draws largely from Arendt's definition of totalitarianism expressed as an antipolitical phenomenon characterized by terror-ruled ideological indoctrination which destroys both the public realm and the private identities. I contend that analyses of twentieth-century totalitarianism are significant to today's unprecedented questions and circumstances germinating in and having significance beyond the USA. I also describe the difficulty of action under extreme conditions. In the last analysis, I deliberate on the site of education as a totalitarian coercion.
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Language: English
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