Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and the problem of terrifying moral complacency
- Written by: Peter Christoff, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
The bulletproof glass booth in which Adolf Eichmann (pictured) testified during his trial in Jerusalem.Richard Drew/APHannah Arendt published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in 1963. Over the next two decades alone, it would be republished some 30 times, first in the United States and then Britain, as debate swirled around...
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