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Nov 19, 2018 · Hannah Arendt, the author of “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” died in 1975. Her earliest reporting for The New Yorker became the 1963 book “ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ...
Mar 22, 2021 · Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published ...
- Hannah Arendt
- 1963
Jun 29, 2020 · Instead of using the Eichmann case as a way forward to advance the tradition’s understanding of radical evil, Arendt decided that his evil was banal, that is, ‘thought-defying’.
Feb 7, 2017 · Among those who misunderstood her notion of the “banality” of evil to mean a trivialization of the outcome of evil rather than an insight into the commonplace motives of its perpetrators was the scholar Gerhard Scholem, with whom Arendt had corresponded warmly for decades.
Arendt’s report, based on her observations of the defendant and of the conduct of the trial, was published in 1963 in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. In her report, Arendt grappled with an enigmatic question: can one commit evil deeds without being innately evil?
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