Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Revue Internationale de Philosophie
Angaben zur Quelle:
53,2 (1999) 155-172
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Stresses that Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" opened public discussion of important questions. She is credited for new thinking about unprecedented phenomena, such as the crimes of the Nazis, and the criminal-bureaucrat. She was misread as exonerating Eichmann and blaming the victims for their own deaths, but was in fact attempting to discuss varying degrees of responsibility, including that of the "bystanders." Her criticism of the Judenrats is clarified: she espoused judging their arguments, not the people themselves. Until her death in 1975, Arendt continued to explore the concept of true thinking ("judging"), in contrast to the shallow, banal thinking of Eichmann that failed to question the murderous immorality of his society.
Note:
On Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem".
,
In German: "Hannah Arendt Revisited" (2000).
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