Hannah Arendt

Germany / USA · Holocaust — political philosophy

About

German-born political theorist who fled the Nazis in 1933. Eichmann in Jerusalem, her report on the 1961 trial, introduced the phrase 'the banality of evil' and has been argued over ever since.

Books in Database (1)

Eichmann in Jerusalem 1963 · 312 pages

Arendt's report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann and her famous, furiously contested verdict: the banality of evil.

Academic

Events Covered

1941 The Holocaust