Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Hannah Arendt's Indictment of Social Science -- Totalitarianism -- Social Science: The Failure of Theory and Method -- Theodore Abel's and Talcott Parsons's Studies of National Socialism -- Conclusion -- 2 "Totalitarianism" in the Dialogue of David Riesman and Hannah Arendt -- Introduction -- The Background to David Riesman's Engagement with Arendt -- The Dialogue -- Conclusion -- Coda: Czesław Miłosz and Totalitarian Dramaturgy -- 3 Ideology, Terror, and the "Mysterious Margin" -- Discovering Germany and Max Weber -- Raymond Aron's Review of The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Ideology and Terror-Arendt's Coda to The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Raymond Aron's Appraisal and Alternative -- 4 Totalitarianism as a "Secular Religion" - The Dispute Between Hannah Arendt and Jules Monnerot -- Introduction -- Communism as "The Twentieth-Century Islam" -- Arendt's Rebuttal -- Monnerot Versus Arendt: Reply and Riposte -- Hell: The Political Genealogy of a Religious Concept -- The Nature of Religion and the Totalitarian "Style" -- Conclusion: Beyond Secular Religion Theory -- 5 Concluding Reflections - A New Constellation of Terror -- Totalitarianism and Radical Islamism -- Excursus: Identifying the Unprecedented -- The Novelty of Modern Islamist Terror -- REFERENCE MATTER -- Notes -- References -- Index.