'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books
The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece
Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, this classic portrayal of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling issues of the twentieth century.
'Deals with the greatest problem of our time ... the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system' Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241552292
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 20 mm
Weight: 260 g
Language: English
A touchstone in the 20th century's thinking about morality and politics - The New York Times
Quite astonishing . . . her indictment of Eichmann reached beyond the man to the historical world in which true thinking was vanishing - Judith Butler
Deals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system - The New Republic
Man's Search For Meaning
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
The Periodic Table
Commandant Of Auschwitz
Born Survivors
Hitler's Furies
Hitler's Willing Executioners
At the Mind's Limits
Ordinary Men
After Auschwitz
Excellently written and very readable, however not for the faint hearted. The story of an ordinary man taken over by extraordinary circumstances who was able to close his mind and just "do his job". As such... More
The book itself is fascinating, and the copy is a good one, with a good introduction to give you some background to Arendt and the political climate at the time of writing.
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