Word: arendt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hannah Arendt attempted yesterday to clear away the confusion surrounding the moral dilemma which faced citizens of Nazi Germany...
...oddest graduate school in the U.S. is a far-out arm of the University of Chicago called the Committee on Social Thought. Physically, it is a dingy office under the eaves of the social science building. Its faculty, which includes Novelist Saul Bellow and Political Scientist Hannah Arendt, numbers only eleven. But its goal is as big as the world. While other graduate schools atomize knowledge, this one aims toward "a unification of knowledge and a revealing of the human being as a whole...
...handle such versatility, the faculty itself is a sort of vest-pocket university. Friedrich Hayek, the non-Keynesian economist, was a longtime regular. Hannah Arendt, a recent catch, is a famed expert on totalitarianism. Novelist Bellow is there, he says, because of his "interest in social questions. I like to keep in touch...
Paul A. Lee's review of the two books on Eichmann is far more engaging. He defends Hannah Arendt's thesis that Eichmann is "banal," rather than a "monster of evil," characterizing him as "an efficient, hard-working administrator, who took no thought of the moral consequences of his actions because such reflection was beyond his capacities...
According to Lee, Miss Arendt's analysis of Eichmann's character is confirmed by William L. Hull's The Struggle for a Soul, in which the author, a Protestant missionary in Israel, describes his attempts to convert Eichmann before his execution. After condemning Hull for being "puerile" and for attempting "to browbeat Eichmann into a 'repeat after me' attitude," Lee accepts his claim that Eichmann never recognized his own guilt. He was therefore, Lee says, "no willful Edmund, Richard Ill, Iago, or Flamineo, for the willful ones find out." Men like Eichmann, on the other hand, "have engaged...