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cinaedussinister's review against another edition
5.0
The fact that I base most of my political philosophy off of her says something about the quality of her writing, I think. Remember kids: never become complacent, but above all never become thoughtless - “It was sheer thoughtlessness that drove [Eichmann] to become one of the greatest criminals of the period”. I’ve never seen the causes of the Holocaust put so well.
iammandyellen's review against another edition
4.0
so interesting that arendt says explicitly in her postscript that the book was not "a theoretical treatise on the nature of evil" (112), and yet penguin describes it in the synopsis as a "radical work on the banality of evil," and the full work from which this text is excerpted is titled [b:Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil|52090|Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil|Hannah Arendt|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1283038161s/52090.jpg|1023716] in fact, most of the work deals with issues of justice and legality.
in_praise_of_idlenesss's review against another edition
3.0
so then hannah was all like so this is what y’all should of said to eichmann instead: “the new breed of evil that characterises ur actions is so beyond what we can discuss and determine as a court of law so we are gonna hang u because humanity as a whole no longer wants to hang out with you due to what you’ve done and not only that u are very boring as a person like wow.”
sixohsix's review against another edition
4.0
This is a fascinating account of the trial of Eichmann and his apparent motivations in enabling the Holocaust, but I don't recommend it as an introduction to the topic. Arendt references a lot of other books, articles, and events, and without a solid understanding of the Holocaust and related arguments of its causes and history, this book can be tough to understand. At least it was for me.
But it's still a troubling story of how, under the right circumstances, a person can be utterly blind to the unspeakable evils they are committing.
But it's still a troubling story of how, under the right circumstances, a person can be utterly blind to the unspeakable evils they are committing.
ellafaereads's review against another edition
3.0
Quite interesting! Hannah Urendt explains Eichmann's role in WW2, the Holocaust, the world after the war (also the Nuremberg trials) and what the war meant and did to the remaining jewish people and the rest of the world. Absolutely recommended if you'd like to know more than Wikipedia tells you, lol.