Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil

Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen

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Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil (2006, Penguin Books, Limited)

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Published Jan. 24, 2006 by Penguin Books, Limited.

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978-0-14-193159-3
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.

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Eichmann à Jérusalem

L'impensable « banalité du mal ». J'ai si souvent entendu cette expression qu'il me fallait lire par moi-même le célébrissime ouvrage d'Hannah Arendt. L'actualité ô combien insoutenable, les événements si difficiles à penser ; tout était réuni pour que je me plongeasse dans le livre. Le compte rendu du procès par la philosophe est d'une incroyable richesse sur le plan historique. Hannah Arendt nous aide à mettre l'Histoire en ordre et donne à penser sur notre époque. Il est triste de constater que l'être humain n'avance guère vers plus d'humanité alors qu'à la sortie du nazisme, tant de belles paroles furent tenues, tant de fois nous entendîmes « plus jamais ça », tant de penseurs ont décortiqué et écrit sur l'Horreur de ce siècle passé. Je recommande vivement cet ouvrage qui, s'il est extrêmement dense et complexe en faits historiques, se lit plutôt facilement grâce à la clarté de l'écriture …

Some lengthy notes on Eichmann in Jerusalem with Gaza in mind

I’ve read this book after finishing Berlant, and my first emotion towards it has been relief. Arendt write in such a clear and engaging way. The first chapters have an almost reportage-like style (the book did at first appear in The New Yorker), whilst later in the book she turns towards a persuasive / essay-ish tone. Throughout, she is concerned with keeping a constant pace, using precise and understandable words, and avoiding all rhetoric - clearly triggered by the style of both the accused and the prosecution in the Eichmann trial. Vite scadenti, mitologie eroiche (a sentence I saw attributed, in Italian, to Susan Sonntag).

In preparation to reading the book, I listened to a The Dig episode on the book 'The rights to have rights', which takes as a starting point Arendt's thinking on human rights to discuss migrant rights today. The authors (Astra Taylor and Stephanie de …

reviewed Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt (Twentieth-Century Classics)

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This book wasn’t quite what I expected, which meant I wasn’t as big of a fan of it. I was personally less interested in the bureaucratic details and legal questions. I wanted to focus more on the question of what Eichmann was guilty of, complicity, and how someone “normal” does evil things. I don’t feel like that was explored all that much ultimately, so I was dissatisfied.

I did learn a lot about the history of these events that I didn’t know before, and I found the political context of the trial interesting to learn about. My book club enjoyed thinking about the culpability of people like Eichmann and the Jewish councils that cooperated in order to try to mitigate the situation.

While the onslaught of detail was a little much for me, I did enjoy gaining a more nuanced picture. I love/hate that learning more about a thing creates …

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