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Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1963
Pages
Pages 312

A philosopher reports from the trial of a Holocaust logistician and finds not a monster but a thoughtless careerist, and names the discovery the banality of evil.

The lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

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