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"Race-Thinking" and "Tribal Nationalism" versus a "Political Organization of Citizens"

The "Ideas of 1914"

Arendt never systematically developed her thoughts about the intellectuals who propounded the so-called "Ideas of 1914."¹ Yet we do find critical comments on them scattered throughout her work, where they figure as an element in her theory of totalitarianism as a radical break with tradition that renders all former political categories useless.² In her letter to Karl Jaspers on March 4, 1951, she points to a relation between the drive to render human beings superfluous and the drive toward total power.³ She insists that neither a state nor a nation nor a people can or should...