Author
Parvikko; Tuija
Year
2021
Publisher
Helsinki University Press
Language
English
Pages
15
ISBN
978-9-52369-070-7
Last Update
21-Jan-2026
Keywords
History ; European Studies ; Political Science ; Military Studies ; security-studies-discipline
This is a study of Hannah Arendt’s book, Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil, which caused a furious uproar immediately after its appearance in 1963, especially in the American Jewish community. The level of controversy it caused remains unparalleled in political thought; once it broke out it really never calmed down. On the contrary, the first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the appearance of a number of new readings of the Eichmann trial and Arendt’s impact on our understanding of both the character of the Nazi criminal and the historical and political significance of...
