Banality Of Evil: Hannah Arendt And The Final Solution; Author: Bergen, Bernard J.; Paperback

Author: Bergen, Bernard J.
Paperback; Index
208 pages
Published: September 1998
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0847692108

This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil, a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi final solution. According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt were the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times. As Bergendescribes Arendt's struggle to understand the banality of evil, he shows how Arendt redefined the meaning of our most treasured political concepts and principles -- freedom, society, identity, truth, equality, and reason -- in light of the horrific events of the Holocaust. Arendt concluded that the banality of evil results from the failure of human beings to fully experience our common human chaThis text explores the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil, a term used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi final solution. Arendt was preoccupied by the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times.