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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report On The Banality Of Evil Paperback – 20 August 2007

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Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition of Eichmann in Jerusalem contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.
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"Brilliant and disturbing." --Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books

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

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0143039881
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (20 August 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780143039884
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143039884
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.42 x 13.03 x 19.58 cm
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) taught political science and philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Chicago. Widely acclaimed as a brilliant and original thinker, her works include Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Human Condition.

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Mario
5.0 out of 5 stars Important message
Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2023
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This is a very interesting read; she really looks from a very objective point of view at this subject. The Story of Eichmann is extremely interesting and important. Also incredibly sad, which makes it such an important story to tell, and read. Eichmann was the guy who organized the transportation of Jews in the third Reich during the Nazis attempts to eliminate and eradicate the Jews from Germany and Europe. While he probably never personally ordered someone to kill someone or killed anyone himself. His efforts were crucial in the killing of millions of people. Which cost him eventually his life. In my opinion a must read, even though it can be a bit slow sometimes when it comes to all the details of it, but at the same time, this it is also extremely important to understand some of the details. If you are interested in history and you are interested in the question of good and evil, this is a great read.
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Ronald Ostrowski
5.0 out of 5 stars Puts a stopper on historical revisionism where everyone except the Jews were collaborators
Reviewed in Australia on 6 September 2019
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Since I have been reading lies about Poland and WW11 I have decided to research the true facts that led to the Jewish Holocaust. Hannah Arendt was a Holocaust survivor herself and her objective examination of the Eichmann Trial provided insights into such matters as guilt, empathy and the role of some Jews collaborating in their own demise. Little wonder Arendt was vilified by many as she unwound the myth that Eichmann was the monster's monster. Worth a read for anyone wanting to understand how the Jewish Holocaust came to be, and those responsible for it. Arendt's view that Eichmann was more of a clown, who much like the Jewish Ghetto Judenraten, was not the actual butcher but the logistical administrator that sent millions of Jews to their doom into the gas chambers as part of the Final Solution. Highly recommended.
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Simon Karoly
5.0 out of 5 stars Remains Controversial
Reviewed in Australia on 15 October 2020
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Good read and far more topical than Origins of Totalitarianism (sales through the roof) which really should have died an ignominious death long ago.
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Reviewed in Australia on 18 November 2015
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Monumental affirmation of moral philosophy in the post-War era
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WELL SAID AND WRITTEN.
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Debussy 56
5.0 out of 5 stars the banality of evil
Reviewed in Canada on 17 January 2024
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masterpiece on 20th century evil
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5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece
Reviewed in France on 13 March 2022
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History, philosophy, moral, and laws converging but still unable to explain and properly judge. This is a masterpiece forever. Strongly reccomended in difficult times!
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POM
4.0 out of 5 stars Una lectura obligada
Reviewed in Spain on 5 April 2021
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Un despliegue de erudición sobre un hecho histórico redactado independientemente. Buena prosa, tintes irónicos en la descripción de la tragedia de la solución final. La ironía le fue criticada mucho a la autora, pero la misma no es falta de respeto con las víctimas de la barbarie ni condescendencia con los asesinos. Por el contrario, el tinte irónico de algunos pasajes nace de poner de manifiesto los absurdos que acompañaron la gestación de todo este proceso por parte de los nazis y su posterior enjuiciamiento por las potencias vencedoras y el estado de Israel.
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Carol Long
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic analysis of a complex issue.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2021
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I first read this book over 30 years ago and found it heavy going even then. But a book discussing the Eichmann trial, with all it's complexities, was never going to be a light read. Unlike other reviewers I did not view Arendt as a "self hating Jew", but an incisive thinker who was not afraid to weigh up the evidence (all from public record) and openly and honestly discuss them in this book. That's not to say that I agreed with everything she stated, but she certainly made me think about the notions of guilt and innocence and personal, as apposed to state, responsibilty.

If you want a book that only describes the monstrous deeds of the Holocaust, as well as Eichmann's role in it, this is not the book for you. Arendt discusses not just Eichmann's role, but the role other people and organisations had in this "catastrophe". A discussion some people, even to this day, find unpalatable.

I am glad that I have read this book again, as with age (and I hope maturity), I got much more from it than I did all those years ago. In the political climate of 2021 there are parallels with 1920's and 1930's Europe and the rise of populist politicians who don't allow the facts to 'get in the way of a good story'. Let's hope the lessons learned all those years ago are not forgotten and history does not repeat itself!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Should we put up with evil?
Reviewed in Brazil on 4 September 2019
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Arendt shows how we do, when we shouln't. It was the case of the Germans during the Hollocaust, it was legal. The book is also History, it is a report on the Eichmann jugement.
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