Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004VNXBVC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 165 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sociopath? Mindless buffoon? Banal civil sesrvant? Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt, 298 pages. Everyone should read a book about Hitler’s Final Solution every ten years or so, just to get re-grounded in the terrible possibilities of being human. Arendt’s reportage of the post-Nuremburg trial of Adolf Eichmann certainly offers such re-grounding. She chillingl. "Insightful and Profound. Less philosophical and more historical than I expected." according to Peter S. Bradley. Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arndt is a legend. It is the kind of book that is more referenced than read. Arendt’s catchphrase – “the banality of evil” – beautifully summarizes the modern view of bureaucratized evil, although, interestingly, the phrase is. "the banality of evil - o.k. let's define it once and for all" according to cvairag. Much of the world has as yet to catch up with Hannah Arendt, who, after Hiroshima, presciently observed that a conventional war could never again be won and that war would take the shape of occupation, that the level of violence in what we now know today as the post-modern world was becoming radically entropic, and that revo
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. 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 20th century.. 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