When Our Need to Belong Goes All Wrong: What Hannah Arendt Says About Loneliness
Hannah Arendt ends The Origins of Totalitarianism — a book about the most anti-human form of government in history — on a deeply human note. Hitler, Stalin, and their respective movements created their Frankenstein monsters from already-existing parts, above all antisemitism and elements of imperialism. But it was loneliness that “prepare[d]” people to…
