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“... The Origins of Totalitarianism. Widely hailed as original and profound, this sprawling book – as Margaret Canovan argues persuasively in Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought, the best brief survey of her work to date – expressed almost all of the ‘thought trains’ that Arendt would subsequently pursue. Despite the glowing ...”

“... One may suspect that not all have done so in a wholly neutral way: the modern use of the term, as Margaret Canovan has lucidly shown (Populism, 1981), is a fearsome shambles. ‘Populism’ all too often appears as a disapproving broad-brush gesture with sinister undertones. Yet for all its weaknesses, it is a concept which does reflect some of the ...”

“... or the bad? ‘Her best-known writings were essentially inward-looking,’ the political theorist Margaret Canovan explained in 1992. ‘The motive behind her work was her own effort to understand … Misreadings of her books left her largely unmoved.’ For Canovan – who wrote two separate Arendt books eighteen ...”