Includes index.

Pt. 1. Antisemitism.
Ch. 1. Antisemitism as an outrage to common sense.
Ch. 2. The Jews, The nation-state, and the birth of antisemitism.
Ch. 3. The Jews and society.
Ch. 4. The dreyfus affair --
Pt. 2. Imperialism.
Ch. 5. The Political Emancipation of the bourgeoisie.
Ch. 6. Race-thinking before racism.
Ch. 7. Race and bureaucracy.
Ch. 8. Continental imperialism: the pan-movements.
Ch. 9. The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man --
Pt. 3. Totalitarianism.
Ch. 10. A classless society.
Ch. 11. The totalitarian movement.
Ch. 12. Totalitarianism in power.
Ch. 13. Ideology and terror.
Ch. 14. Epilogue: Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution: 1) Russian after Stalin’s death; 2) The Hungarian revolution; 3) The satellite system.

It is indispensable for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. Nothing in the nineteenth century ”indeed, nothing in human history" could have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humanity were just one individual.