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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 197–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Shmuel Lederman Abstract The article reexamines Hannah Arendt’s shift from “radical evil” in The Origins of Totalitarianism to “the banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem and subsequent writings. At the heart of this shift stands Arendt’s realization that she exaggerated the role of ideology...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 75–93.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Alexandra Tacke In abstract and sometimes deliberately alienating treatments of archival material, Eyal Sivan and Rony Brauman's Specialist (1999) and Romuald Karmakar's Himmler Project (2000) engage in impressive reconcretizations of Hannah Arendt's concept of the “banality of evil.” Both...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 141–169.
Published: 01 February 2016
... in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Men in Dark Times , and The Life of the Mind . Many who discuss her account of forgiveness fail to adequately consider the distinctions and assertions that Arendt makes in her political theory. This article thus challenges a propensity in critical literature...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2009
... set about killing all of them. How can
we account for seemingly motiveless mass murder? This is one of the driv-
ing questions behind Arendt’s report on the banality of evil.
However, Arendt seems to tread on slippery ground at those select
instances in her book when she attempts to engage...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 57–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
...: Les esclaves de la mémoire, 1991) provided for serious disputations,
and The Specialist (Un spécialiste: Portrait d’un criminel modern, 1999), the
film he made with Rony Brauman about the Eichmann trial, rendered the
defendant visible in terms of Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” while show...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2019
.... None of Scholem’s positive comments made it on the list. Scholem listed his points of critique, including tone, the depiction of Baeck as the Jewish Führer , and finally, underlined and in bold, “Banality of Evil.” Much to Arendt’s dismay, these aspects came to be the most discussed (and criticized...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . Amis Martin , Cheyette Bryan , Ellmann Lucy , and Skibell Joseph . “ Writing the Unwritable .” Jewish Quarterly 45 , no. 2 ( 1998 ): 12 – 15 . Arendt Hannah . Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil . New York : Viking , 1965 . Auerbach...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 205–215.
Published: 01 November 2023
... accomplishment also meant intellectual dryness and a memorial “wisdom” combined with a conservative “constitutional patriotism.” This inverted Faustian fate—conformist and mediocre prosperity instead of evil genius—is the transitory aftermath of a century of fire and blood. [email protected] Copyright ©...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 195–214.
Published: 01 February 2016
... Personality. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Arendt, Hannah. 1951. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
1963. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York:
Viking.
Bajohr, Frank, and Michael Wildt, eds. 2009. Volksgemeinschaft: Neue Forschungen zur...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 101–126.
Published: 01 November 2007
... banality, for his outward resemblance to a “mannekin”—a word that
recalls her description of “mechanized men”—belies his role as the sine qua
34. Janet Flanner to Katherine White, October 9, 1935, Box 227, NYA.
Annalisa Zox-Weaver 115
non of Nazi evil...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 137–170.
Published: 01 November 2013
... film proceeds
by insisting that it will address itself to Hitler only insofar as he signifies (as
Sontag puts it, Hitler as “sign yet it turns its attention to the insignificant
Hitler, that part neither indicative of good or evil, or anything else for that mat-
ter. This is what Syberberg calls...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 123–144.
Published: 01 November 2017
... case was in her response to the trial in Israel of Eichmann, Eichmann
in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which generated a storm of
criticism that has scarcely abated in the half century since it appeared.
Blumenberg shared many of the standard criticisms of her book: its prob...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2019
... one’s examples and one’s company,” Arendt writes, “and out of the unwillingness or inability to relate to others through judgment, arise the real skandala . . . . Therein lies the horror and, at the same time, the banality of evil” ( RJ , 146). “Choosing one’s examples” and “choosing one’s company...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 139–167.
Published: 01 February 2012
... and legitimate
“violent modes of conflict behaviour.”4 There are surely numerous ways to
put violence into narrative—by finding criteria to judge it or legitimate it, by
inscribing it into the formation of identity, by presenting it as an element
in stories of good and evil, by placing it at the origins...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 153–180.
Published: 01 August 2023
... since, “for Blumenberg ‘legitimate’ political myth is preventative and defensive rather than aggressive.” 60 In Blumenberg’s eyes, Arendt’s thesis of the banality of evil—based on Raul Hilberg’s meticulous research and Eichmann’s deceitful performance in court—deprives the trial of its...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the global-warming culture of Europe and America is under the spell of the postwar economic miracle and the “unstated premise” of abundance at the cost of political agency and the life and livelihood of all who have been banished from this beguiled world. 20 Climate change is the very banal, neutral...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., but also interpreting the activities of his
targets. His reports translate the banalities of life into bureaucratic jargon:
“CMS [Sieland] and Lazlo [the code name for Dreyman] packen Geschenke
aus. Danach vmtl. Geschlechtsverkehr” (CMS and Lazlo unpack their gifts.
Afterward presumably sex...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 27–43.
Published: 01 August 2007
... this way. See Hannah Arendt, Eich-
mann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin, 1994), 252.
15. Jürgen Habermas, “The Horrors of Autonomy: Carl Schmitt in English,” in The New Con-
servatism, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), 137; Peter Bürger...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
Published: 01 August 2019
... ‘Breiviks Erklärung’ in Basel .” Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , April 10 , 2013 . www.srf.ch/kultur/buehne/wirbel-um-breiviks-erklaerung-in-basel . Tacke Alexandra . “ The Desk Murderer and the Corporate Executive: (Re)concretizing the ‘Banality of Evil’ in The Specialist and The Himmler...
FIGURES
Journal Article
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... on a
notion of modernity as the fall into a disenchanted condition of radical evil. The
meaning of Kafka’s solipsism was fought over in the key aesthetic debate of
mid-twentieth-century German letters on the legacy of artistic modernism.8
What Georg Lukács attacked as pathology, Theodor W. Adorno...
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