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This reads as a claim that one major line of political philosophy has a clear arc, from classical beginnings to a modern ending. Arendt is pointing to a break in the way politics is imagined, with Marx standing at the close of an older tradition rather than its continuation. It lands when someone wants a concise way to mark a deep shift in political thinking.
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Books by Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
2003
Eichmann in Jerusalem
1963
The Human Condition
1958
Between past and future
1961
On violence
2005