Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Babylon; Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Angaben zur Quelle:
16-17 (1996) 94-107
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Examines the ambivalence between radical universalism and equally radical Jewish nationalism in "Eichmann in Jerusalem". Comments that Arendt's concept of the "banality" of Nazi crime is closer to the experience of the perpetrators than to that of the victims, for whom the crimes were monstrous. With this concept, Arendt laid one of the foundations for the functionalist school of Holocaust historiography. Attributes her nationalism to her own realistic reaction to the Holocaust, while her universalism is due partly to her German-Jewish assimilationist heritage and partly to the influence of her husband, Heinrich Blücher, and of Karl Jaspers.
Note:
Appeared also in "Hannah Arendt Revisited" (2000) and in English in "New German Critique" 71 (1997).
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