Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

5 reviews

asiaasiaja's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Murder, Hate crime, Deportation, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, War, and Physical abuse

giuliii's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

It took me an embarrassing long time to actually finish this book (around a month, although I annotated it all) but I actually found it to be an extremely interesting read once I got the hang of it. It's really compelling from a psychological viewpoint because it analyzes the mind of Adolph Eichmann and National-Socialists and delves deep into what it really means for evil to be banal, without subtracting the fault out of it. It also allowed me to expand my knowledge on the events of the war and the politics of it, so now I feel like I have a better understanding of that time period. If interested in the topic or even if it's an academic demand (as was mine), I really encourage whoever to read it, you won't regret it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Slavery, War, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Antisemitism, Deportation, Mental illness, Trafficking, Violence, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia and Ableism

I mean, it's a book about world war two so it's pretty self explanatory

megb64's review

challenging dark slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Hate crime, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Violence

apersonfromflorida's review

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, and Death

Moderate: War and Violence

heyitsgiulia's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

To really understand why I loved this book it's important, in my opinion, saying that I studied law and this book, before portraying the story of a nazi criminal, for me it was the story of a trial. I found so interesting the author point of view, especially I appreciated how she remained objectively critical towards the trial, without getting carried away by sentimentality. This is even more impressive if we think that we are talking about criticizing a trial towards a nazi criminal by a Jewish author. That said, I would suggest this book to everyone, because it's important to understand how simple is hiding ourself behind lies, believing that we are doing something good only because someone else is telling us that we are. In our everyday life we should think more about our actions and how these actions can impact the life of other people and our world, because, most of the times, our action have a huge impact on other's lives, even if we don't see it directly.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Genocide, Violence, and War