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  • Published: 20 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141931593
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil




One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism

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. 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.

  • Published: 20 August 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141931593
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

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About the author

Hannah Arendt

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.

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