Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences —- — —+ 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd ii 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM -— — +— 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd iiii 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM H annah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences Peter Baehr Stanford University Press Stanford, —- California — —+ 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd iiiiii 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©  by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Ju nior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid- free, archival- quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Baehr, Peter. Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism, and the social sciences / Peter Baehr. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.  - - - -  (cloth : alk. paper) . Arendt, Hannah, – . . Totalitarianism. . Social sciences— Philosophy. I. Title. .A  —.d c  -— — Typeset by Westchester Book Group in ./ Adobe Garamond +— 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd iivv 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM For Volker —- — —+ 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd vv 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM Th ere must be a middle place between abstraction and childishness where one can talk seriously about serious things. —Czesław Miłosz, I Apologize -— — +— 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd vvii 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM Contents Ac know ledg ments ix Introduction  §  Hannah Arendt’s Indictment of Social Science  §  “Totalitarianism” in the Dialogue of David Riesman and Hannah Arendt  §  Ideology, Terror, and the “Mysterious Margin”: Raymond Aron versus Hannah Arendt  §  Totalitarianism as a Secular Religion: The Dispute Between Hannah Arendt and Jules Monnerot  §  Concluding Refl ections: A New Constellation of Terror  Notes  References  Index  —- — —+ 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd vviiii 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM -— — +— 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd vviiiiii 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM Ac know ledg ments Many people have helped me understand Hannah Arendt, her milieu, and her social scientifi c interlocutors. Deserving special thanks are Dan- iel Bell, Margaret Canovan, Nathan Glazer, David Kettler, Daniel Ma- honey, Wilfred M. McClay, and Volker Meja, to whom this book is dedi- cated. Staff of the Rare Book and Manuscript division of Butler Library, Columbia University, and of the Library of Congress, were, on various occasions, gracious hosts. Visits to these institutions were generously fa- cilitated by research grants from Lingnan University. Grace Wong, secre- tary to the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, off ered the kind of practical help and scrupulous attention to detail and deadlines that mark her as one of Lingnan’s fi nest. My editor at Stanford University Press, Norris Pope, was a model of effi ciency and scrupulousness. My greatest debt of gratitude is to my wife, Hedda, and to our chil- dren Izzy and Max. A portion of Chapter  fi rst appeared in  in the American So cio log- ic al Review (:– ) under the title “Identifying the Unpre ce dented: Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Critique of Sociology.” Part of Chapter  was published in  by the Eu ro pe an Journal of Po liti cal Theory as “Of Politics and Social Science: ‘Totalitarianism’ in the Dia- logue of David Riesman and Hannah Arendt” (:– ). Use of mate- rial from these articles is gratefully acknowledged. —- — —+ ix 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd iixx 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM -— — +— 554444--4411889911__cchh0000__22PP..iinndddd xx 1122//1166//0099 55::3377 PPMM