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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
4 reviews
asiaasiaja's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Murder, Hate crime, Deportation, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, War, and Physical abuse
giuliii's review against another edition
4.5
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 explanatorylinneak's review
3.5
Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Xenophobia, Deportation, War, Genocide, and Confinement
Minor: Kidnapping, Murder, Child death, and Suicide
aehc's review
5.0
Arendt has been criticized for her characterization of Eichmann as non-ideologically motivated, when some evidence suggests that he was in fact a virulent anti-semite. I ultimately do not think that these facts undercut Arendt's argument; whether Eichmann was truly a banal paper-pusher or a true believer, he was portraying himself as a non-ideologue and on some level believed that that would make his actions less reprehensible. The fundamentals of Arendt's argument - that people who were not ideologically committed to Nazism were instrumental to its success, and that their internal motivations are at best irrelevant and in some ways worse than those of an ideologue - remain unchanged.
This book is dry - especially at the beginning - but to me that serves only to magnify the dissonance between Eichmann's logistical duties and his concern with his status, and the atrocities he was crafting at his desk. Arendt’s use of some of the dehumanizing Nazi language is very rhetorically effective and, as I’m sure she intended, profoundly disturbing. This is one of the most disturbing books I've read in a very, very long while. I will not stop thinking about it for some time.
Graphic: Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death, and Genocide