Description
The first English edition of The Burden Of Our Time by Hannah Arendt, published simultaneously in the United States with the title The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951.
Octavo, xv, [1], 477pp. Blue hardcover, title stamped in black on the spine. Stated “First published 1951” on the copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers from the dust jacket, light toning to top edge of text block. Free of marginalia. In the publisher’s scarce dust jacket, “30s. net” on the front flap, sunning to spine, shallow chips at head of spine, a bright, near fine example. Scarce in this condition.
The Burden Of Our Time (The Origins of Totalitarianism) by Hannah Arendt was first published in 1951 by Harcourt, Brace & Company in the United States, and in the same month by Secker & Warburg of London. The first major work from Hannah Arendt focused on anti-Semitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism, with an emphasis on Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. A second edition appeared in 1958, including a new preface and an added epilogue titled “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government.” It’s been cited by Le Monde and The National Review as one of the 100 best works of the 20th Century.
