Word: arendt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...resettle German Jews in other countries. Eichmann was genuinely proud of his work; he thought he was doing the Jews a favor. He admired Zionists as "idealists" and said that he, too, wanted to give the Jews a home of their own. He was sincerely shaken, Arendt believes, when he learned of the Führer's "Final Solution"-to kill the Jews. "I now lost everything," he moaned, "all joy in my work, all initiative, all interest; I was, so to speak, blown out." But he quickly made the adjustment. He became as efficient at transporting Jews...
...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