What to Read After The Origins of Totalitarianism
Readers who loved The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Origins of Totalitarianism is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Origins of Totalitarianism
Imagined communities
Homo sacer
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)
Specters of Marx
The anatomy of fascism
The paranoid style in American politics
Hannah Arendt
Main currents of Marxism
The Human Condition
Eichmann in Jerusalem
The psychic life of power
On violence
The End of History and the Last Man
On revolution
One-Dimensional Man
The Social Contract
Two Treatises on Government
Between past and future
Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
Discipline and Punish
The life of the mind
The second treatise of government
A theory of justice
Leviathan