Wed, Sep 30
|Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar
September 2026 Book Club: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar, 801 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001
About the event
Join Alumni Philodemica's Book Club for happy hour as we meet to discuss The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. Book Club will take place at Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar, 801 9th St NW at 6:30pm. Get your book today!
Book description: Hannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism―an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history―now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.
A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.
The book begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I.
Hannah Arendt then explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our…