Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report On The Banality Of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Arendt, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140187650 ISBN 13: 9780140187656

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.

About this title

Review:

"Brilliant and disturbing." --Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books

"Profound . . . This book is bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences." --Chicago Tribune

"Deals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system." --Bruno Bettelheim, The New Republic

About the Author:

Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In 1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in 1975.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140187650
• ISBN 13: 9780140187656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320