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 […]
Justice Is a Matter of Judgment
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt