Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

1963 • 312 pages

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**Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil** is a 1963 book by political theorist *Hannah Arendt*. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.

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a stone cold bummer if you can believe it

December 24, 2020
March 11, 2022

Clearly a very problematic book, but still an important work that has sparked some of the greatest debates on the nature of evil in the 20th century.

October 15, 2009