The trial that never ends : Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem in retrospect / edited by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer.

"The fiftieth anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial may have come and gone but in many countries around the world there is a renewed focus on the trial, Eichmann himself, and the nature of his crimes. This increased attention also stimulates scrutiny of Hannah Arendt's influential and co...

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Other Authors: Golsan, Richard Joseph, 1952- (Editor), Misemer, Sarah M. (Editor)
Other title:Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem in retrospect.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Series:German and European studies ; 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • Judging the past : the Eichmann trial / Henry Rousso
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem : conscience, normality, and the "rule of narrative" / Dana Villa
  • Banality, again / Daniel Conway
  • Eichmann on the stand : self-recognition and the problem of truth / Valerie Hartouni
  • Arendt's conservatism and the Eichmann judgement / Russell A. Berman
  • Eichmann's victims, Holocaust historiography, and victim testimony / Carolyn J. Dean
  • Truth and judgement in Arendt's writing / Leora Bilsky
  • Arendt, German law and the crime of atrocity / Lawrence Douglas
  • Whose trial? Adolf Eichmann's or Hannah Arendt's? The Eichmann controversy revisited / Seyla Benhabib.