Visualizing atrocity : Arendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness

Visualizing atrocity : Arendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness / Valerie Hartouni.

Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitariani...

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Main Author: Hartouni, Valerie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2012]
Series:Critical cultural communication.
Subjects:
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975. > Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975 > Criticism and interpretation.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975 > Political and social views.
Eichmann, Adolf, > 1906-1962 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975
Eichmann, Adolf, > 1906-1962
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt, Hannah)
1900-1999
War crime trials > Jerusalem > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Germany.
Genocide > Germany > History > 20th century.
Good and evil > Political aspects.
Good and evil > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
LAW > Media & the Law.
Atrocities
Genocide
Good and evil > Social aspects
Political and social views
War crime trials
Germany
Middle East > Jerusalem
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann : Contextualizing the Debate
  • Ideology and Atrocity
  • Thoughtlessness and Evil
  • "Crimes Against the Human Status" : Nuremberg and the Image of Evil
  • The Banality of Evil.

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