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Eichmann in Jerusalem

by Hannah Arendt

  • FINISHED
  • Finished May 2023
  • First published 1963

history political theory

Arendt reports on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann and describes him as an ordinary bureaucrat rather than a monster.   She introduces the idea of the banality of evil and questions how the trial was run.