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Justice Is a Matter of Judgment

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

June 10, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

First published in 1963 as a series of articles in The New Yorker, this is philosopher Hannah Arendt’s report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. Eichmann admitted to being one of the major organizers of the Holocaust but denied any guilt in the criminal sense because he had only been following orders in a system that did not allow disobedience. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging in 1962. Huge controversies broke out over this account of the trial […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: hannah arendt

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: hannah arendt ·
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Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme

Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt

February 2, 2019 by vel veeter 1 Comment

It’s hard to rate this book because to read it is to immediately enter into the debate and controversy over it. A controversy, conversely, that I didn’t actually know anything about going into. The book is a reportage and essay series printed initially in The New Yorker during the months and subsequent years of the Eichmann trial in Israel. Eichmann was “arrested” in Argentina by Israeli nationals and brought back to Israel to stand on multiple counts. The arrest itself was not entirely sanctioned because […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Eichmann in Jerusalem, hannah arendt

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:62 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Eichmann in Jerusalem, hannah arendt ·
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