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- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction. Arendt in Jerusalem: The Eichmann Trial, the Banality of Evil, and the Meaning of Justice Fifty Years On 3
- Chapter One. Judging the Past: The Eichmann Trial 22
- Chapter Two. Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the “Rule of Narrative” 43
- Chapter Three. Banality, Again 67
- Chapter Four. Eichmann on the Stand: Self-Recognition and the Problem of Truth 92
- Chapter Five. Arendt’s Conservatism and the Eichmann Judgment 116
- Chapter Six. Eichmann’s Victims, Holocaust Historiography, and Victim Testimony 148
- Chapter Seven. Truth and Judgment in Arendt’s Writing 161
- Chapter Eight. Arendt, German Law, and the Crime of Atrocity 191
- Chapter Nine. Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann’s or Hannah Arendt’s? The Eichmann Controversy Revisited 209
- Contributors 229
- Index 235
- German and European Studies 257
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction. Arendt in Jerusalem: The Eichmann Trial, the Banality of Evil, and the Meaning of Justice Fifty Years On 3
- Chapter One. Judging the Past: The Eichmann Trial 22
- Chapter Two. Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the “Rule of Narrative” 43
- Chapter Three. Banality, Again 67
- Chapter Four. Eichmann on the Stand: Self-Recognition and the Problem of Truth 92
- Chapter Five. Arendt’s Conservatism and the Eichmann Judgment 116
- Chapter Six. Eichmann’s Victims, Holocaust Historiography, and Victim Testimony 148
- Chapter Seven. Truth and Judgment in Arendt’s Writing 161
- Chapter Eight. Arendt, German Law, and the Crime of Atrocity 191
- Chapter Nine. Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann’s or Hannah Arendt’s? The Eichmann Controversy Revisited 209
- Contributors 229
- Index 235
- German and European Studies 257