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Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

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English
Penguin
20 August 2007
New to Black Classics from 20th c.

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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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   250g
ISBN:   9780143039884
ISBN 10:   0143039881
Pages:   336
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Hannnah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and Between Past and Future (all available from Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).

Reviews for Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Brilliant and disturbing. --Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books Profound . . . This book is bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences. --Chicago Tribune 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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