Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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New to Black Classics from 20th c. Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition of Eichmann in Jerusalem contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.

Hannnah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and Between Past and Future (all available from Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).

"Brilliant and disturbing." -Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books "Profound . . . This book is bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences." -Chicago Tribune "Deals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system." -Bruno Bettelheim, The New Republic