UNLEARNING WITH HANNAH ARENDT

After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the banality of evil, thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non- psychopathic people? By revealing the full complexity of the trial with reasoning that defied prevailing attitudes, Arendt became th e object of severe and often slanderous criticism, losing some of her closest friends as well as being labeled a self-hating Jew. And while her...[Read more]