Journal article
A democratic consensus? Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, and the anti-totalitarian family quarrel
- Abstract:
- Amid the ongoing political turmoil, symbolized by the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, books and articles abound today to encourage us to re-read anti-totalitarian classics ‘for our times’. But what do we find in this body of work originally written in response to Nazism and Stalinism? Do we find a democratic consensus forged by a shared anti-totalitarian commitment? I doubt it. Considering the cases of Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, this article highlights discord beneath what may today appear like a post-war democratic consensus. I argue that the anti-totalitarian literature of the last century encompassed multiple political philosophies, which sometimes differed irreconcilably from each other.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 143.6KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S1477175617000306
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Think More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 48
- Pages:
- 25-37
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-04
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1755-1196
- ISSN:
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1477-1756
- Language:
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English
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732355
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2017-10-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Royal Institute of Philosophy
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 The Royal Institute of Philosophy. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175617000306
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