Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Arendt, Hannah
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Add to basketViking Press 1963 First Edition Pu(Y) Fine/Near Fine Full title - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Light-tan-color cloth with black and red text blocks and black spine lettering. Bright unclipped dust jacket with tiny mended spine end tears o/w Fine, protected in clear dust jacket cover. Solid structure, tight bright pages. Inside page edges deckled. 12+275+5 pages with index. HEAVY ITEM 1.24 Pounds. Size: 8 5/8 x 6 x 1 1/4 inches.
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Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed.
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