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| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt, 2006-09-22 The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism 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. 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. 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 twentieth century. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Banality of Evil Bernard J. Bergen, 2000-01-01 This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt were the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times. As Bergen describes Arendt's struggle to understand 'the banality of evil,' he shows how Arendt redefined the meaning of our most treasured political concepts and principles_freedom, society, identity, truth, equality, and reason_in light of the horrific events of the Holocaust. Arendt concluded that the banality of evil results from the failure of human beings to fully experience our common human characteristics_thought, will, and judgment_and that the exercise and expression of these attributes is the only chance we have to prevent a recurrence of the kind of terrible evil perpetrated by the Nazis. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt, 1963 Hannah Arendts authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendts postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Banality of Evil Bernard J. Bergen, 1998 Takes its point of departure from Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. Focuses neither on Eichmann nor the Holocaust, but on what Bergen sees as the political and philosophical consequences of the banality of evil. These derive from the human failure to develop the thought, will, and judgment that are necessary to prevent the kind of evil committed by the Nazis. Like Arendt, Bergen is more concerned with totalitarianism than antisemitism, often referring to her work The Origins of Totalitarianism. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt, 1992 A profound and documented analysis....Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences.-Chicago Tribune. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth, 2014-09-02 A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself, from the defendant’s box in Jerusalem, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders—no more, he said, than “just a small cog in Adolf Hitler’s extermination machine.” How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding? Bettina Stangneth, the first to comprehensively analyze more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann’s own recently discovered written notes— as well as seventy-three extensive audio reel recordings of a crowded Nazi salon held weekly during the 1950s in a popular district of Buenos Aires—draws a chilling portrait, not of a reclusive, taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes with whom to discuss past glories while vigorously planning future goals with other like-minded fugitives. A work that continues to garner immense international attention and acclaim, Eichmann Before Jerusalem maps out the astonishing links between innumerable past Nazis—from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen—both in exile and in Germany, and reconstructs in detail the postwar life of one of the Holocaust’s principal organizers as no other book has done |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Thinking in Dark Times Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, Thomas Keenan, 2010 Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century. This book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Responsibility and Judgment Hannah Arendt, 2009-04-02 Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless be an agent of the most extreme evil evoked derision, outrage, and misunderstanding. The firestorm of controversy prompted Arendt to readdress fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, as she struggled to explicate the meaning of Eichmann in Jerusalem. At the heart of this book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy”; in it Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed. Responsibility and Judgment is an essential work for understanding Arendt’s conception of morality; it is also an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Evil of Banality Elizabeth K. Minnich, 2024-11-05 In this expanded edition of The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation of “extensive evil,” her term for systematic, normalized harm-doing on the scale of genocide, slavery, sexualized dominance. The book now includes a new preface, new chapter, and expanded afterword addressing ongoing extensive evils, the paradox of lying, and the importance of developing the thinking without which conscience remains mute. Extensive evils are actually carried out not by psychopaths, but by people like your quiet next-door neighbor, your ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters to do the long hard work of extensive evils, nor enough saints for extensive good. In periods of extensive evil, people little different from you and me do its work for no more than a better job, a raise, the house of the family “disappeared” last week. So how can there be hope? Such evils are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing both the worst and best of which humans are capable, we can recognize and say no to extensive evil, practice and sustain extensive good, where they must take root – in ordinary lives. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Life of the Mind Hannah Arendt, 1981 The author's final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man's mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: On Love and Tyranny Ann Heberlein, 2021-01-05 In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. What can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible. The life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history of the Western world, a period that witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime and the crises of the Cold War, a time when our ideas about humanity and its value, its guilt and responsibility, were formulated. Arendt’s thinking is intimately entwined with her life and the concrete experiences she drew from her encounters with evil, but also from love, exile, statelessness, and longing. This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane. On Love and Tyranny brings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Eichmann Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2011-03-15 ***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)*** Part of the Jewish Encounter series The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the survivors’ courtroom testimony—which was itself not without controversy—had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood what the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive had actually experienced. As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this trial of the century, which has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world, offers a legal, moral, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil. Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Letters, 1925-1975 Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, 2004 When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest young student. What happened between them then will never be known, but both would cherish their brief intimacy for the rest of their lives. The ravages of history would soon take them in quite different directions. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Heidegger became rector of the university in Freiburg, delivering a notorious pro-Nazi address that has been the subject of considerable controversy. Arendt, a Jew, fled Germany the same year, heading first to Paris and then to New York. In the decades to come, Heidegger would be recognized as perhaps the most significant philosopher of the twentieth century, while Arendtwould establish herself as a voice of conscience in a century of tyranny and war. Illuminating, revealing, and tender throughout, this correspondence offers a glimpse into the inner lives of two major philosophers. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question Richard J. Bernstein, 2013-05-28 Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of the most significant themes in Arendt's thinking have their origins in their confrontation with the Jewish Question. By approaching her mature work from this perspective, we can gain a richer and more subtle grasp of her main ideas. Bernstein discusses some of the key experiences and events in Arendt's life story in order to show how they shaped her thinking. He examines her distinction between the Jewish parvenu and the pariah, and shows how the conscious pariah becomes a basis for understanding the independent thinker. Arendt's deepest insights about politics emerged from her reflections on statelessness, which were based on her own experiences as a stateless person. By confronting the horrors of totalitarianism and the concentration camps, Arendt developed her own distinctive understanding of authentic politics - the politics required to express our humanity and which totalitarianism sought to destroy. Finally, Bernstein takes up Arendt's concern with the phenomenon of the banality of evil. He follows her use of Eichmann in order to explore how the failure to think and to judge is the key for grasping this new phenomenon. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question offers a new interpretation of Arendt and her work - one which situates her in her historical context as an engaged Jewish intellectual. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Expanse and Philosophy Jeffery L. Nicholas, 2021-11-16 Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey The Expanse and Philosophy investigates the philosophical universe of the critically acclaimed television show and Hugo Award-winning series of novels. Original essays by a diverse international panel of experts illuminate how essential philosophical concepts relate to the meticulously crafted world of The Expanse, engaging with topics such as transhumanism, belief, culture, environmental ethics, identity, colonialism, diaspora, racism, reality, and rhetoric. Conceiving a near-future solar system colonized by humanity, The Expanse provokes a multitude of moral, ethical, and philosophical queries: Are Martians, Outer Planets inhabitants, and Earthers different races? Is Marco Inaros a terrorist? Can people who look and sound different, like Earthers and Belters, ever peacefully co-exist? Should science be subject to moral rules? Who is sovereign in space? What is the relationship between human progress and aggression? The Expanse and Philosophy helps you answer these questions—and many more. Covers the first six novels in The Expanse series and five seasons of the television adaptation Addresses the philosophical issues that emerge from socio-economics and geopolitics of Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance Offers fresh perspectives on the themes, characters, and storylines of The Expanse Explores the connections between The Expanse and thinkers such as Aristotle, Kant, Locke, Hannah Arendt, Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Nietzsche Part of the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, The Expanse and Philosophy is a must-have companion for avid readers of James S.A. Corey’s novels and devotees of the television series alike. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Evil and Human Agency Arne Johan Vetlesen, 2005-12-01 Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation, and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied, and projected by different agents. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Eichmann and the Holocaust Hannah Arendt, 2006 The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was 'only following orders'. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt Anne C Heller, 2022-03-01 The acclaimed biographer presents “a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher” and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews). Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal. Arendt’s first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt’s contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a “conscious pariah”—one of those rare people who doesn’t “lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us” and will not “pay any price” to gain the acceptance of others. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? Richard J. Bernstein, 2018-06-11 Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what is wrong with politics today. Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should be read today because her penetrating insights help us to think about both the darkness of our times and the sources of illumination. He explores her thinking about statelessness and refugees; the right to have rights; her critique of Zionism; the meaning of the banality of evil; the complex relations between truth, lying, power, and violence; the tradition of the revolutionary spirit; and the urgent need for each of us to assume responsibility for our political lives. This short and very readable book will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the forces that are shaping our world today. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Bower Lodge Paul Pastor, 2021-12-10 Bower Lodge journeys inward to a wild landscape of joy, grief, and transformation. By turns mournful, meditative, incantatory, and rejoicing, this poetry collection's fresh, potent images and unforgettable, musical language carves a map into that hidden, holy world that lies deep at the core of our own. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Trial That Never Ends Richard J. Golsan, Sarah Misemer, 2017-03-17 The fiftieth anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial may have come and gone but in many countries around the world there is a renewed focus on the trial, Eichmann himself, and the nature of his crimes. This increased attention also stimulates scrutiny of Hannah Arendt’s influential and controversial work, Eichmann in Jerusalem. The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt’s famous book and the issues she raised: the banality of evil, the possibility of justice in the aftermath of monstrous crimes, the right of Israel to kidnap and judge Eichmann, and the agency and role of victims. The contributors also interrogate Arendt’s own ambivalent attitudes towards race and critically interpret the nature of the crimes Eichmann committed in light of newly discovered Nazi documents. The Trial That Never Ends responds to new scholarship by Deborah Lipstadt, Bettina Stangneth, and Shoshana Felman and offers rich new ground for historical, legal, philosophical, and psychological speculation. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview Hannah Arendt, 2013-12-03 Arendt was one of the most important thinkers of her time, famous for her idea of the banality of evil which continues to provoke debate. This collection provides new and startling insight into Arendt's thoughts about Watergate and the nature of American politics, about totalitarianism and history, and her own experiences as an émigré. Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations is an extraordinary portrait of one of the twentieth century's boldest and most original thinkers. As well as Arendt's last interview with French journalist Roger Errera, the volume features an important interview from the early 60s with German journalist Gunter Gaus, in which the two discuss Arendt's childhood and her escape from Europe, and a conversation with acclaimed historian of the Nazi period, Joachim Fest, as well as other exchanges. These interviews show Arendt in vigorous intellectual form, taking up the issues of her day with energy and wit. She offers comments on the nature of American politics, on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, on Israel; remembers her youth and her early experience of anti-Semitism, and then the swift rise of the Hitler; debates questions of state power and discusses her own processes of thinking and writing. Hers is an intelligence that never rests, that demands always of her interlocutors, and her readers, that they think critically. As she puts it in her last interview, just six months before her death at the age of 69, there are no dangerous thoughts, for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Thinking Without a Banister Hannah Arendt, 2021-02-23 Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great philosophers—Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger—throughout their lives. She was a thinker, in search not of metaphysical truth but of the meaning of appearances and events. She was a questioner rather than an answerer, and she wrote what she thought, principally to encourage others to think for themselves. Fearless of the consequences of thinking, Arendt found courage woven in each and every strand of human freedom. In 1951 she published The Origins of Totalitarianism, in 1958 The Human Condition, in 1961 Between Past and Future, in 1963 On Revolution and Eichmann in Jerusalem, in 1968 Men in Dark Times, in 1970 On Violence, in 1972 Crises of the Republic, and in 1978, posthumously, The Life of the Mind. Starting at the turn of the twenty-first century, Schocken Books has published a series of collections of Arendt’s unpublished and uncollected writings, of which Thinking Without a Banister is the fifth volume. The title refers to Arendt’s description of her experience of thinking, an activity she indulged without any of the traditional religious, moral, political, or philosophic pillars of support. The book’s contents are varied: the essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind as well as her character, acquainting the reader with the person Arendt was, and who has hardly yet been appreciated or understood. (Edited and with an introduction by Jerome Kohn) |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt Samantha Rose Hill, 2021-08-16 Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After World War II, Arendt became one of the most prominent—and controversial—public intellectuals of her time, publishing influential works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Samantha Rose Hill weaves together new biographical detail, archival documents, poems, and correspondence to reveal a woman whose passion for the life of the mind was nourished by her love of the world. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Arendt and America Richard H. King, 2015-10-20 German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no one has directly considered the influence of America on her thought—until now. In Arendt and America, historian Richard H. King argues that while all of Arendt’s work was haunted by her experience of totalitarianism, it was only in her adopted homeland that she was able to formulate the idea of the modern republic as an alternative to totalitarian rule. Situating Arendt within the context of U.S. intellectual, political, and social history, King reveals how Arendt developed a fascination with the political thought of the Founding Fathers. King also re-creates her intellectual exchanges with American friends and colleagues, such as Dwight Macdonald and Mary McCarthy, and shows how her lively correspondence with sociologist David Riesman helped her understand modern American culture and society. In the last section of Arendt and America, King sets out the context in which the Eichmann controversy took place and follows the debate about “the banality of evil” that has continued ever since. As King shows, Arendt’s work, regardless of focus, was shaped by postwar American thought, culture, and politics, including the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. For Arendt, the United States was much more than a refuge from Nazi Germany; it was a stimulus to rethink the political, ethical, and historical traditions of human culture. This authoritative combination of intellectual history and biography offers a unique approach for thinking about the influence of America on Arendt’s ideas and also the effect of her ideas on American thought. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Adolf Eichmann Beverly Oshiro, Ruth Sachs, 2015-12-15 This biography of one of the key figures of the Jewish Holocaust is important for understanding the details that led to one of the most grisly periods of human history, as well as for those looking to bear witness to the Holocaust. The biography details Eichmann’s life as a young man, how he moved up the ranks within the Nazi regime, and his eventual self-exile to Argentina, where he hid until he was discovered and brought to trial for his crimes. The book includes historical photographs and primary source documents. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness Daniel Maier-Katkin, 2010-03-02 Two titans of 20th-century thought, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, are explored in depth: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt Dana Villa, 2000-11-30 A distinguished team of contributors examines the primary themes of Arendt's multi-faceted thought. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Superfluous People Kees van Hattem, 2005 Superfluous People describes Hannah Arendt's political and philosophical views on Nazi totalitarianism and the Shoah. In her contemplation of evil, Arendt initially spoke of the Shoah as a 'radical evil, ' a term used by Kant. However, unlike Kant, Arendt's radical evil cannot be explained by human motives. Many years later she changed her mind and spoke of 'the banality of evil, ' characterized by an inability to think and judge. Superfluous People seriously considers the question of whether thinking and judging can prevent ev |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Unlearning with Hannah Arendt Marie Luise Knott, 2015-04-14 Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non-psychopathic people? By revealing the full complexity of the trial with reasoning that defied prevailing attitudes, Arendt became the object of severe and often slanderous criticism, losing some of her closest friends as well as being labeled a “self-hating Jew.” And while her theories have continued to draw innumerable opponents, Arendt’s work remains an invaluable resource for those seeking greater insight into the more problematic aspects of human nature. Anchoring its discussion in the themes of translation, forgiveness, dramatization, and even laughter, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt explores the ways in which this iconic political theorist “unlearned” recognized trends and patterns—both philosophical and cultural—to establish a theoretical praxis all her own. Through an analysis of the social context and intellectual influences—Karl Jaspers, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger—that helped shape Arendt’s process, Knott has formed a historically engaged and incisive contribution to Arendt’s legacy. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Idealism and Freedom Henry E. Allison, 1996-01-26 This volume collects all Henry Allison's recent essays on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: On Violence Hannah Arendt, 2014-01 An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times(Nation). Index. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: America the Philosophical Carlin Romano, 2013-04-23 This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States is an anti-intellectual country. Instead he provides a richly reported overview of American thought, arguing that ordinary Americans see through phony philosophical justifications faster than anyone else, and that the best of our thinkers ditch artificial academic debates for fresh intellectual enterprises. Along the way, Romano seeks to topple philosophy’s most fiercely admired hero, Socrates, asserting that it is Isocrates, the nearly forgotten Greek philosopher who rejected certainty, whom Americans should honor as their intellectual ancestor. America the Philosophical is a rebellious tour de force that both celebrates our country’s unparalleled intellectual energy and promises to bury some of our most hidebound cultural clichés. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The End Ian Kershaw, 2012-08-28 From the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second World War, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital questions of how and why the Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Drawing on prodigious new research, Ian Kershaw, an award-winning historian and the author of Fateful Choices, explores these fascinating questions in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the death of Adolf Hitler and the German capitulation in 1945. The End paints a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Beyond the Banality of Evil Augustine Brannigan, 2013 Positioning itself within significant developments in genocide studies arising from misgivings about two noteworthy observers, Arendt and Milgram, this book asks what lies 'beyond the banality of evil'? And suggests the answer lies within criminology. Offering the author's reflections about how to interpret genocide as a crime, Beyond the Banality of Evil: Criminology and Genocide endeavours to understand how the theories of criminal motivation might shed light on these stunning events and make them comprehensible. While a great deal has been written about the shortcomings of the obedience paradigm and 'desk murderers' when discussing the Holocaust, little has been said of what results when investigations are taken beyond these limitations. Through examination and analysis of the literature surrounding genocide studies, Brannigan frames the events within a general theoretical approach to crime before applying his own revised model, specifically to Rwanda and drawn from field-work in 2004 and 2005. This provides a new and compelling account of the dynamics of the 1994 genocide and its distinctive attributes of speed, popularity, totality and emotional indifference. With a focus on the disarticulation of personal culpability among ordinary perpetrators, Beyond the Banality of Evil questions the effectiveness of individual-level guilt imputation in these politically based, collectively orchestrated crimes, and raises doubts about the utility of criminal indictments that have evolved in the context of models of individual misconduct. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, 2017-11-17 The essence of the correspondence between Arendt and Scholem can be said to lie in three things. Above all it provides an intimate account of how two great intellectuals try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, and how to think about Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust. They also debate the issue of what it means to be Jewish in the post-Holocaust world whether in New York or in Jerusalem. Finally, the specter of Benjamin haunts the work and in a sense the letters are as much about Benjamin as the other two questions since his life and tragic death epitomize them both. Arendt and Scholem's letters on these weighty questions are lightened by more routine exchanges: on travel itineraries, lunch or dinner parties where important people were present, and so forth. These daily details are woven throughout the correspondence and provide vivid biographical information about Arendt and Scholem that is unavailable in any other source. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Selected Political Writings Niccolò Machiavelli, David Wootton, 1994-01-01 Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice. (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli literally does so when the occasion demands: Renderings of that most problematic of words, virtù, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction, no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Under the Bridge Rebecca Godfrey, 2009-09-29 *Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!* “A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy. |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Four Texts on Socrates Plato, 1984 |
| hannah arendt the banality of evil: Radical Hope Jonathan Lear, 2009-06-30 Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life. |
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil - JSTOR
trial, Hannah Arendt. In her book on the subject, Eichmann in Jerusa-lem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, she formulated a disturbing image-original in its thesis, modern in its …
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HANNAH ARENDT June, 1964 1: The House of Justice "Beth Hamishpath" - the House of Justice: these words shouted by the court usher at the top of his voice make us jump to our feet as …
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil - University of Michigan
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil Stephen J. Whitfield The History Teacher, Vol. 14, No. 4. (Aug., 1981), pp. 469-477. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018 …
The Eichmann Polemics: Hannah Arendt and Her Critics - Dissent
In May 1963 the articles were compiled into a book published by Viking Press, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. During the Second World War, Adolf Eichmann …
Toward Forgiveness: Arendt’s Banality of Evil - Virginia Tech
Abstract: This essay employs Hannah Arendt’s idea of banal evil from Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) as a possible route to understanding or forgiving violent crimes. Through the …
The Banality of Evil: Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust and War
Here, we con-sider the still controversial and challenging thesis about the nature and origins of evil in this atrocious arena as articulated by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, a thesis that she …
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. By …
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. By HANNAH ARENDT. New York, The Viking Press, 1963.-275 pp. $5.50. Highly personal and impulsively written, this book is difficult …
Hannah Arendt on Banality - De Gruyter
The banality of evil—the ability to kill innocent people with no bad motivations or criminal inclinations—is the outcome of a totalitarian regime, Arendt claims. But what caused people to …
Hannah Arendt and Moral Evil: Connecting the Radical and the …
address the controversy that arose regarding the term ‘banality of evil’. In the last chapter, I will compare both Arendt’s notions of evil, and argue that we should understand these concepts in …
Conrad, Arendt, and the “Banality of Evil” - JSTOR
In a postscript, she explains that when she spoke “of the banality of evil” she did so “only on the strictly factual level” (287), yet the expression remains the most notorious of her nuanced, …
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Perhaps the greatest political philosopher of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt was not a system builder. Rather, she was a thinker, who thought things through carefully, making …
On the exception of Hannah Arendt - London School of Economics
This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the …
REFLECTING ON HANNAH ARENDT AND EICHMANN IN …
In this essay, we offer a modern legal reading of Hannah Arendt’s classic book, Eichmann in Jerusalem. First we provide a brief account of how Arendt came to write Eichmann in …
Hannah Arendt and the ‘Banality of Evil’ - Quadrant Online
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906. Her family moved to Berlin, where her childhood was scarred by grief and terror. When she was only seven, her father died of …
HANNAH ARENDT: RADICAL EVIL, RADICAL HOPE - JSTOR
Her use of the term 'radical evil' and later of the 'banality of evil' leads in this article to a question as to whether the concept of 'radical hope' might contain within it strength to face the future.
What St. Augustine Taught Hannah Arendt about “how to live
Almost immediately a vituperative controversy erupted in the New York community, and eventually around the world, focused on her notorious paradigm of “the banality of evil” and …
Holes of Oblivion: The Banality of Radical Evil - JSTOR
In her 1945 review of Denis de Rougemont's "The Devil's Share" (1944) Hannah Arendt argues, "The reality is that the Nazis are men like ourselves; the night- mare is that they have shown, …
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry - Hannah Arendt
A book would be required to report how “the banality of evil” has become banal over the decades since Hannah Arendt published her controversial ”Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
Nazism, Culture and The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah …
Hannah Arendt and the Discourse of Evil Steven E. Aschheim The intense intellectual and emotional impact exerted by Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism upon a whole …
Richard J. Bernstein - JSTOR
anism, Hannah Arendt sums up her horrendous narrative of the eruption of twentieth-century totalitarianism. She declares, It is inherent in our entire philosophic tradition that we cannot …
Carl Schmitt’s confrontation with the work of Hannah Arendt: A …
Hannah Arendt: A debate on totalitarianism, power, and banality of evil Ville Suuronen ... Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), and several essays from Hannah Arendt. …
Beyond the Banality of Evil: Criminology and Genocide. By …
Brannigan’s contrarian position curious and regrettable not only because he might find in Arendt a productive ally, but because his many incisive conclusions—impoverished by being reduced to …
Hannah Arendt And The Banality Of Evil - 45.79.9.118
Hannah Arendt And The Banality Of Evil Shasha Hu What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil? Apr 23, 2018 · Arendt never did reconcile her impressions of Eichmann’s …
Moral Responsibility and the Banality of Evil - Universiteit Utrecht
and the phenomenon of banal evil, that was brought to light by German philosopher Hannah Arendt. I will do so because actions that can be ascribed to consumerism, have a lot in …
'Without Explaining': Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, and 'Mr
known that Arendt was taught in her youth by Martin Heidegger, a philo-sopher who emphatically dismissed public life and any form of what he 1 Hannah Arendt, Eickmann in Jerusalem : A …
Thinking Prevents Grave Evil: An Analysis of Thinking According …
Our primary source is Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. In this book, she talks about the trials that Eichmann had to face and her analysis of ...
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil - University of Michigan
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil Stephen J. Whitfield The History Teacher, Vol. 14, No. 4. (Aug., 1981), pp. 469-477. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici ...
The Banality of Evil - JSTOR
Stephen Miller asserts that Hannah Arendt's theory about the banality of evil was wrong, categorically rejecting her sug-gestion that some instances of evil can be characterized as …
Arendt, Evil, and the Complexity of Mimesis - SAGE Journals
Hannah Arendt ([1963] 2006) controversially called the “banality of evil.” I say the phantom of that banality and not the banality of evil itself to mark an obvious mimetic difference between old …
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry - Hannah Arendt
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl A book would be required to report how “the banality of evil” has become banal over the decades since Hannah …
The Radicalism of the Banality of Evil: Ideology and Political ...
evil.”11 Thesecommentatorscanbeseenasrepresentativesofthedominantten- dency in the scholarship on Arendt’s turn to the concept of “the banality of evil.”12 ...
Hannah Arendt: A Conscious Pariah and Her People
Hannah Arendt: A Conscious Pariah and Her People Samantha Balber “In the Jewish tradition there is a concept, hard to define yet concrete enough, which we ... Eichmann in Jerusalem: A …
Lesson The Banality of Evil and Modern Atrocities - PBS
The Banality of Evil and Modern Atrocities OVERVIEW Political philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to explain the psychology of Nazis who killed Jews …
HANNAH ARENDT’S CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF EVIL
this thesis I reconstruct Hannah Arendt’s accounts of evil by presenting them in relation to other fundamental concepts for which Arendt is well-known. My argument is that in ... Arendt uses …
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry - Hannah Arendt
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl A book would be required to report how “the banality of evil” has become banal over the decades since Hannah …
REFLECTING ON HANNAH ARENDT AND EICHMANN IN …
hannah-arendt-adolf-eichmann-banality-of-evil> . 20 Arendt, above n 2, 135. Kant’s categorical imperative stipulates: ‘Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, …
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ing questions behind Arendt's report on the banality of evil. However, Arendt seems to tread on slippery ground at those select instances in her book when she attempts to engage …
The Human Chameleon: Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of Evil
characteristic of what Hannah Arendt called the “banality of evil” (Arendt, 2006). Myoverarching claim is that both at the individual and collective level, Zelig confirms Nietzsche’s thesis that a …
Is Radical Evil Banal - PhilArchive
fundamentally interdependent. Instead, I contend that radical evil and the banality of evil are independent but nonetheless highly complementary concepts. 2. Radical Evil For Arendt, as …
Banal Evil Radical Goodness. Re ection on the 60th Anniversary …
10 Oct 2023 · Abstract: The starting point of this article lies in the idea, defended by Hannah Arendt, according to which only goodness can be radical, while evil is merely banal. The idea …
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry - Hannah Arendt
“Banality of Evil” as “Big Idea” – A blog entry By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl A book would be required to report how “the banality of evil” has become banal over the decades since Hannah …
Hannah Arendt, the Holocaust, and Zionism: A Story of a Failure
on the Eichmann Trial, the banality of evil, Israel, and Zionism. Today, not only from the distance of time but also from the perspective of her entire intellectual enterprise and its symbolic …
Lesson The Banality of Evil and Modern Atrocities - PBS
The Banality of Evil and Modern Atrocities OVERVIEW Political philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to explain the psychology of Nazis who killed Jews …
RESPONSIBILITY, JUDGING, AND EVIL - JSTOR
Despite the subtitle "The Banality of Evil" —an expression that appeared only once in her report — Arendt was not writing a theore tical treatise about the nature of evil, nor was she even …
Identity, Perspective and Narrative in Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann …
particularly evil nor particularly smart people could get caught in the machinery of evil and commit the deeds they did. It is the coming together of these narratives with her philosophi cal thesis …
Hannah Arendt: on judgment and responsibility - ResearchGate
Hannah Arendt: on judgment and responsibility Peter D. Burdon * Adelaide Law School, Australia ... well that the expression 'banality of evil' was an inappropriate description of Hitler
Hannah Arendt: A Conscious Pariah and Her People - University …
Hannah Arendt: A Conscious Pariah and Her People Samantha Balber “In the Jewish tradition there is a concept, hard to define yet concrete enough, which we ... Eichmann in Jerusalem: A …
Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte …
to respond to those who have suffered evil. THE "BANALITY OF EVIL": A NEW KIND OF EVIL, A NEW KIND OF PERPETRATOR Ever since Arendt connected the words "evil" and "banal," …
Evil: Richard Bernstein Transcript Samantha Rose Hill: (00:13)
Within the world of Arendt studies, the banality of evil is often read as a contradiction to the concept of “radical evil” that Arendt comes to at the end of the origins of totalitarianism, which …
AI ethics and the banality of evil - Springer
AI ethics and the banality of evil Payman Tajalli1 Published online: 25 March 2021 ... In this paper, I draw on Hannah Arendt’s notion of ‘banality of evil’ to argue that as long as AI systems are …
The Banality of Ideology - Virginia Tech
Keywords: ARENDT, BANALITY OF EVIL, ALTHUSSER, IDEOLOGY, ANTI-SEMITISM, CAPITALISM, FASCISM Hannah Arendt seems to be en vogue again, not only in academic …
Hannah Arendt’s Thesis on Different Modes of Evil - Helsinki
– about the phenomenon of evil. Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind The Thesis of Evil Hannah Arendt’s “thesis” of evil is well known. It starts with a famous claim: “The problem of evil will be …
Identity, Perspective and Narrative in Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann …
particularly evil nor particularly smart people could get caught in the machinery of evil and commit the deeds they did. It is the coming together of these narratives with her philosophi cal thesis …
Revisiting the Banality of Evil: Contemporary Political Violence …
entific underpinnings for Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ perspective…^ [Blass cited, p. 268.] 4 Quoted in Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority: An Experimental
Ethics for the Little Man: Kant, Eichmann, and the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt’s account of Adolph Eichmann’s trial, Eichmann in Jerusa-lem, is remembered, among other things, for its striking and controversial subtitle: A Report on the Banality of Evil. …
Evil Reconsidered Broschuere - Einstein Forum
What is deeper, good or evil? Arendt’s thesis of the banality of evil is an attempt to un‐ dermine evil by demystifying it. ... Arendt, Genocide, and Evil Hannah Arendt’s discussion of genocide …
Philosophy / BY HANNAH ARENDT - JSTOR
BY HANNAH ARENDT After the publication, in 1963, of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt's attention became focused on moral and ethical questions. …
On Hannah Arendt’s Judgment - psa.ac.uk
On Hannah Arendt’s Judgment . Chao, I-Fu . ... －’banality of evil.’ 2. Arendt had said that ‘the faculty of judgment’ is ‘the most political of man’s mental abilities.’ ... “The Banality of …
The Lucifer-Effect – The Importance of Arendt’s ’Banality of Evil’ …
Arendt’s phrase of the ’banality of evil’ continues to resonate because genocide has been unleashed around the world and torture and terrorism continue to be common features of our …
The Cunning of the Will? - hannaharendt.net
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann Jeruzsálemben. Tudósítás a gonosz banalitásáról (Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil) Translated by Péter Mesés and Attila Pató. Osiris …
A Note on the Banality of Evil - The Wilson Quarterly
of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phe-nomenon which stared one in the face at the trial.” Indeed, the book’s subtitle is A Report on the Banality of …
Arendt on Arendt: Reflecting on the Meaning of the Eichmann …
5 Introduction The controversy touched off by Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil did not take long to become vicious.Published initially as a five-part …
Hannah Arendt’s Thesis on Different Modes of Evil - Helsinki
– about the phenomenon of evil. Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind The Thesis of Evil Hannah Arendt’s “thesis” of evil is well known. It starts with a famous claim: “The problem of evil will be …
Between Socrates and Kant. Thinking and sensus communis in Arendt…
Thinking and sensus communis in Arendt’s conception of the banality of evil Patrick Roney Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show how Hannah Arendt develops her concept of the …
Radical Evil - JSTOR
RADICAL EVIL Alan M. Wald Stephen J. Whitfield. Into the Dark: Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980. xii + 338 pp. Notes, bibli …
Hannah Arendt’s Conception of Conscience: Not Everyone Has a …
1 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 146. 2 Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (San Diego: Harcourt Brace …
Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought by …
1982); George Kateb, Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil (Totowa, N.J., 1984). In this period the edition of Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy by R. Beiner also …
The banality of simulated evil: designing ethical gameplay
The banality of evil In 1963, Hannah Arendt was commissioned by The New Yorker to write a report on the trial of Otto Adolf Eich-mann, one of the main coordinators of the Holocaust. …
Hannah Arendt Reconsidered: Collaboration and the Banality of Evil …
Banality, Arendt, Littell, collaboration, justice Margarethe Von Trotta’s recent film Hannah Arendt (2012) intelligently re-examines the considerable controversy generated by the German …
TOTALITARIANISM AND JUSTICE: HANNAH ARENDT’S AND …
legal repercussions. To this end, we examine two sets of studies: Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and Shklar’s After …
