Arendt; Eichmann and the Politics of the Past,

Author

Parvikko; Tuija

Year

2021

Publisher

Helsinki University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-52369-070-7

Link

Last Update

12-Jun-2025

Keywords

History ; European Studies ; Political Science ; Military Studies ; security-studies-discipline

Description

This is a study of Hannah Arendt’s book, Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil, which caused a furious uproar immediately after its appearance in 1963, especially in the American Jewish community. The level of controversy it caused remains unparalleled in political thought; once it broke out it really never calmed down. On the contrary, the first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the appearance of a number of new readings of the Eichmann trial and Arendt’s impact on our understanding of both the character of the Nazi criminal and the historical and political significance of...