Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Arendt, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039881 ISBN 13: 9780143039884

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics.

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS 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 commenting on the controversy that arose over her book. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative - a meticulous and unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and Between Past and Future.

If you enjoyed Eichmann in Jerusalem, you might like Elie Wiesel's Night, available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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

'A profound and documented analysis ... Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences'
Chicago Tribune

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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: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039881
• ISBN 13: 9780143039884
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336