{"product_id":"eichmann-in-jerusalem","title":"Eichmann in Jerusalem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1963, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grew out of Hannah Arendt’s reporting for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal organisers of the Nazi deportation and extermination of European Jews. Combining courtroom observation with historical investigation and political philosophy, Arendt examines the machinery of genocide, the responsibilities of individuals within totalitarian regimes, and the troubling relationship between obedience, conscience and moral judgement. Her account introduced the influential and fiercely debated idea of the “banality of evil”, challenging conventional assumptions about the nature of those who commit extraordinary crimes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book provoked intense controversy, particularly over Arendt’s treatment of Jewish leadership under Nazi occupation and her interpretation of Eichmann himself, and its publication remains a defining episode in twentieth-century intellectual history. Neither a straightforward trial report nor a conventional work of history, it confronts the difficult question of how ordinary habits of thought and institutional obedience can become entangled with radical wrongdoing. Unsettling, incisive and still contested, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains central to debates about the Holocaust, political responsibility and the moral necessity of independent judgement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Hannah Arendt, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A brilliant and disturbing study of the character and the trial of Adolf Eichmann.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Stephen Spender, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64071354941770,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/eichmann-in-jerusalem","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}