Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt Audiobook

Written by Hannah Arendt
Read by Wanda McCaddon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (UNABRIDGED)
by Hannah Arendt
Narrated by Wanda McCaddon

PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio
LENGTH: 11 hrs and 26 mins
AUDIBLE RELEASE DATE: 04-07-11

Publisher’s Summary
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning 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 includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the 20th century.

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“Still has Great Power to Offend”By Martin (KNOXVILLE, TN, United States) Apr 24, 2011

This work was (and is) highly contreversial and has lost none of it’s power to offend. Hannah Arendt, no doubt felt that she was being honest and straightforward. Her narrative often seems far more critical of Israel than the perpetrators of The Holocaust. This is a hard, cold and uncaring narritive. There is an almost complete absence of sympathy for the victims of The Holocaust - only the flippant dismisal that is only appreciated by those who exercise it. It is easy to see why Arendt is often portrayed as a “self lothing Jew”. Her unrelenting theme seems to be: this was a ridiculous and unneccesary show trial and look at all the bad and silly things that Israel is doing. Why - how dare Israel kidnap Eichmann and take him to Israel. When she occasionally manages to put her axe aside, the details are useful. Apart from this the “Banality of Evil” can easily be applied to Hannah Arendt herself.