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| Title | : | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil |
| Author | : | Hannah Arendt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 312 pages |
| Published | : | December 7th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published May 17th 1963) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Politics. World War II. Holocaust. War |
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Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling and unsettled issues of the twentieth century that remains hotly debated to this day.Describe Books Concering Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Original Title: | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil |
| ISBN: | 0143039881 (ISBN13: 9780143039884) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320983/eichmann-in-jerusalem-by-hannah-arendt/ |
| Characters: | David Ben-Gurion, Reinhard Heydrich, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Müller, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Gideon Hausner, Rudolf Kastner, Moshe Landau, Robert Servatius, Edmund Veesenmayer, Dieter Wisliceny |
| Setting: | Jerusalem(Israel) |
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During my time in East Africa, one of the most memorable things I did was to visit the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) building in Tanzania. The Rwandan genocide was one that, I must admit, I knew almost nothing about, other than that it happened. So going into the vast research library, hearing from a lawyer who was involved in the case, and simply walking around a high-security building dedicated to prosecuting mass-murdersall this produced a great impression on me. What wasObjective analysis of ethically devastating periods in history often seems less popular than it should be. Surely this applies to the Holocaust more than any other commonly mentioned, or generally well known genocide. As if there were some sort of a priori understanding that these events were undoubtedly exercised by the minds and wills of evil men. There is much truth to that; people rarely argue that it's possible that these people are anything but evil, or at least devoid of any sort of moral
Hannah Arendt did not see a demon in Eichmann, rather an ordinary person, whose evil did not come from ideological conviction but from thoughtlessness, an inability to reflection and lack of empathy. With the term Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt has coined one of the more memorable quotes from the Eichmann process.Hannah claims that the extraordinary circumstances in relation to the Eichmann process were multiple, and these circumstances overshadowed the central ethical, political and juridical
Hannah Arendt did not see a demon in Eichmann, rather an ordinary person, whose evil did not come from ideological conviction but from thoughtlessness, an inability to reflection and lack of empathy. With the term Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt has coined one of the more memorable quotes from the Eichmann process.Hannah claims that the extraordinary circumstances in relation to the Eichmann process were multiple, and these circumstances overshadowed the central ethical, political and juridical
Hannah (sometimes) in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of a Book A new group of deportees has arrived at Auschwitz. There they are, men, women and children, all fearful, all apprehensive. A truck drives by, piled high with corpses. The arms of the dead are hanging loose over the sides, waving as if in grim farewell. The people scream. But no sooner has the vehicle turned a corner than the horror has been edited out of their minds. Even on the brink of death there are some things too fantastic
In order to pronounce judgment on this book, on Arendt, on the idea of "the banality of evil," you can't simply read reviews, summaries, excerpts, chunks, sentences. You have to read the entire book. You have to. Only by reading the entire book will you acclimate yourself to Arendt's tone, her idiosyncratic writing style, the way a word on p. 252 seems like an odd choice until you recall how she used the same word on p. 53.In the wake of the book came a flood of criticism (in both senses) that
I had no real sense of why Arendt's conclusions about Eichmann might be considered controversial until I read the introduction to my fiftieth-anniversary edition of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by a guy named Ron Rosenbaum, and found that a good portion of it was dedicated to attacking Arendt and her notion of the banality of evil. Rosenbaum essentially cherry-picks one thing that Eichmann (might have) said- something about being able to leap happily into the grave knowing that he had
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