... of the Holocaust in light of her general political philosophy. Arendt avoids giving a straightforward reply as to why Adolf Eichmann and his fellow perpetrators acted as they did. Critics have so far ignored how the linguistic instability of Eichmann in Jerusalem reflects the absence of legal and moral stability...

... and admits contradictions. Even though Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann occupied two very different positions within the NS power hierarchy, they are immediately thought of as among the most prominent NS perpetrators. Himmler as Reichs­ führer-SS and chief of the German police was answerable...

... . Neiman Susan . “ Banality Reconsidered .” In Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt , edited by Benhabib Seyla , 305 – 15 . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . Norberg Jakob . “ The Political Theory of the Cliché: Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann...

... . Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Hannah Arendt Gershom Scholem Isaiah Berlin Zionism Adolf Eichmann In 1942 Hannah Arendt wrote to Gershom Scholem about their letters: “[They] are like minutely thin, strong threads. We’d like to convince ourselves that these threads are able...

... to abandon logos for mythos. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 myth truth telling Israel Jews Adolf Eichmann References Alford C. Fred . 2009 . After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction . New York : Cambridge University Press...

... with fi nd- ing able-bodied prisoners for slave labor. Littell makes use here of a historical confl ict in the SS ranks between those who (like Adolf Eichmann) wanted above all to “liquidate” the Jews and those (including, eventually, Himmler himself) who wanted to exploit able-bodied Jewish...

...” and displayed “a matter of conviction and faith.” In opposition to this, the anti-Semitism of the SS is considered “strictly impersonal,” “synthetic and artificial.”20 While the thrust of this position is consistent with Hannah Arendt’s sub- sequent assertion that Adolf Eichmann, the “SS...

... 1939 , 144 . 13. See, e.g., Ka-Tzetnik, Sunrise over Hell , 23, 35, 93 . Similar terminology was common in the Israeli discourse of the time. In the verdict for the Kastner trial, it was determined that Rudolf Kastner, who dealt with Adolf Eichmann in his attempts to save Hungarian Jews, “sold...

... subjected” reduced their capacity to make moral choices “to zero.” 123 Hannah Arendt’s description of Adolf Eichmann as an ordinary man was crucial in prompting debates about the historical responsibility of the nations who supported totalitarian regimes and their complicity in the crimes...

... of one’s experiences and reactions lends Rahel cor- respondence a certain authenticity. This openness, rather than knowledge, status, or intellect, allows her to achieve that which eludes both Heidegger and Adolf Eichmann: authentic selfhood. This openness to a self-revealing dialogue allows Rahel...

... entwickelt” (see to it that you fi nd some- one who can develop this whole incentive system in all of the camps in an ingenious and artistic way) (40). Himmler’s “artistic” consideration of the very operations of mass murder is echoed in nachschrift 2 by this quotation from Adolf Eichmann: “teilweise...

...Karen Pagani This article supplements the description of forgiveness in Hannah Arendt's Human Condition with an applied interpretation of love and respect, truth and opinion, and the importance of spectators or moral bystanders, as described in Between Past and Future, On Revolution, Eichmann...

... encouragement from a flouting of oth- ers’ opinions and an independence of judgment and action with respect to norms, the thoughtlessness that Arendt opposes to thinking for oneself—and of which Adolf Eichmann is her exemplar—cannot always count as the greater danger to collective existence.25...

... of Adolf Eichmann or Slobodan Milošević reintegrate “traumatic history” into “conventional ver- naculars of memory and understanding.”6 “Is it possible,” asks the epigraph to Douglasʼs book, “that the antonym of ʻforgettingʼ is not ʻremembering,ʼ but justice?” That possibility is refuted...

... and 1960, the capture of Adolf Eichmann in 1960 and his subsequent trial, and the Spiegel Affair of 1962 prompted many discussions about how pupils studied contemporary German history.33 Second, and partly in response to this new public pressure, state and federal authori- ties published new...

... that Schmitt has made a serious contribution to political philosophy. What seems clear from their refutation, however, is that they too understand the term aesthetic pejora- tively and disavow its connection to Schmitt’s work for that reason. 14. Adolf Eichmann talked about his own execution in just...

... of March 1, 1944, that Ringelblum wrote with Adolf Berman and that was transmitted through the Polish underground to London and on to YIVO in New York. This letter proudly surveys the diverse forms of social aid and cultural activism in the Warsaw Ghetto, including the Oyneg Shabes archive. A week...

... facing widespread resistance, and both Lars Kraume’s Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer ( The People vs. Fritz Bauer , 2015) and the television production Die Akte General ( The “General” File , dir. Stephan Wagner, 2016) focus on Bauer’s involvement in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann. Returning...

... of the Grundnorm was a decisive factor in the scholarly understanding of the normative significance of the establishment of the State of Israel in the place of the prior British Mandatory regime. . . . In the famous trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, the Supreme Court cited...

..., and how these events are then rearticulated in the framework of a politically and morally charged ‘past’” (364). This sentence could well serve as a guide to all reception history. Thus Rabinbach also sneaks in a piece on an American reception history in the essay “Eichmann in New York,” an examination...