Vol. 3 | Sechs Essays | Editorial Introduction

Über den Imperialismus / Imperialism: Road to Suicide

Arendt wrote the essay in German and reworked it substantially for the English version. In the annotations, we frequently refer to Arendt’s “excerpts and notes”, a folder of Arendt’s papers in the Library of Congress, which allows to identify Arendt’s specific use of sources for this essay.

See the more detailed German editorial commentary here.