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EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM (275 pp.)-Hannah Arendt-Viking...
Reassessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann in her own original fashion (in a book first serialized in The New Yorker), Political Philosopher Hannah Arendt cites these and other facts and concludes that Eichmann's version of his role in the murder of 5,000,000 Jews was closer to the truth than the Israeli prosecution's. He was not the mastermind, she is convinced. He was simply a cog in the machinery of murder...
Plots Against Hitler. Dr. Arendt, a Jew who herself fled Germany in 1933 and now lives and teaches in the U.S., takes Eichmann at his word that he did not really hate Jews. Not only did he have some Jewish friends; he even had a Jewish mistress. Eichmann's trouble, argues Arendt, was his overdeveloped sense of duty. He blindly obeyed orders -any orders...
...flaw in On Revolution is contained in the author's premise that the disappearance of world war leaves only revolution. Neither the "bush wars" which Kennedy Administration is presently fighting nor the small-scale wars of nationalistic expansion like Sukarno's venture can be included in either of Miss Arendt's categories. As for the new pattern of military coup d'etats in Latin America, the appearance in Egypt of tactical nuclear weapons, the modern armies of the newly independent states--all factors which seem to signal the end of the epoch of popular revolutions--Miss Arendt ignores their existence...
...important thing about On Revolution is that it is a long step forward in the agonizing reappraisal modern liberalism is making of itself and the various institutions it has always held sacred. Hannah Arendt has chosen to examine critically the act which has been the keystone of liberalism since Locke