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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Between Past & 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 & documented analysis Bound to stir our minds & trouble our consciences' Chicago Tribune