That there is nothing in evil for thought to latch onto is what Arendt meant by the banality of evil. Not the murderous deeds but the evildoer she faced in...
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She meant that she, unlike many others, could no longer be "simply a bystander" of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in 1963, and,
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ABSTRACT: I analyze the ways in which the faculty of thinking can avoid evil action, taking into account Hannah Arendt's discussion regarding the banality of evil and thoughtlessness in connection with the Eichmann trial.
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The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the...
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A film about the banality of evil. Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this century’s most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung.
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Nov 2, 2009 and http://www.lawrencehelm.com/2008/08/more-on-what-arendt-meant.html . Rosenbaum's article is entitled, “The Evil of Banality, Troubling new revelations In my report of it I spoke of 'the banality of evil.
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An article by Elie Kedourie from The New York Review of Books, March 20, 1980 Perhaps Kedourie's outrage is due to his belief that "the banality of evil" means that the consequences of evil are always trivial; he says, "Contrary to Miss Arendt's glib phrase, choices of this kind can never be banal.
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One of the striking things about the memories of my friends who lived through the 1930s in Germany is that in some cases it was not until Kristalnacht, in 1938, that they had any sense that Hitler meant anyone ``real'' harm.
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This, for her, was the truly frightening thing, because it meant that Eichmann could not be dismissed as mad or as different from the rest of us. In Arendt’s (1963) words, the lesson of the trial was that of the ‘fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil’. Beyond the banality of evil.
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