Eichmann in Jerusalem

In 1961, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt traveled to Jerusalem to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi's Final Solution. Eichmann in Jerusalem, published two years later, changed the way the world understood the Holocaust, and in the decades since has guided our understanding of totalitarian society, the nature of evil, and the difficult choices we face between complicity and action. As Amir Eshel, the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies at Stanford University, explains, "Eichmann is not just about Eichmann. Eichmann is about an option many of us in modernity have."

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