<p>"This is a collection well worth reading..."</p>

- Ned Curthoys, The University of Western Australia, Arendt Studies, vol. 2, 2018

<p>"As a reflection of current trends in a variety of disciplines, this essay collection serves as an apt contribution to a debate that, given the multifaceted nature of Arendt’s oeuvre and the pervasiveness of mass violence, is not likely to end any time soon."</p>

- Jürgen Matthäus, Washington, D.C., American Historical Review, April 2019

The fiftieth anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial may have come and gone but in many countries around the world there is a renewed focus on the trial, Eichmann himself, and the nature of his crimes. This increased attention also stimulates scrutiny of Hannah Arendt’s influential and controversial work, Eichmann in Jerusalem. The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt’s famous book and the issues she raised: the "banality of evil", the possibility of justice in the aftermath of monstrous crimes, the right of Israel to kidnap and judge Eichmann, and the agency and role of victims. The contributors also interrogate Arendt’s own ambivalent attitudes towards race and critically interpret the nature of the crimes Eichmann committed in light of newly discovered Nazi documents. The Trial That Never Ends responds to new scholarship by Deborah Lipstadt, Bettina Stangneth, and Shoshana Felman and offers rich new ground for historical, legal, philosophical, and psychological speculation.
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The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt’s famous book and the issues she raised.
Introduction 1 Judging the Past: The Eichmann TrialHenry Rousso 2 Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the "Rule of Narrative"Dana Villa 3 Banality, AgainDaniel Conway 4 Eichmann on the Stand: Self-Recognition and the Problem of TruthValerie Hartouni 5. Arendt’s Conservatism and the Eichmann JudgementRussell A. Berman 6 Eichmann’s Victims, Holocaust Historiography, and Victim TestimonyCarolyn J. Dean 7. Truth and Judgement in Arendt’s WritingLeora Bilsky 8. Arendt, German Law and the Crime of AtrocityLawrence Douglas 9. Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann’s or Hannah Arendt’s? The Eichmann Controversy RevisitedSeyla Benhabib Contributors Index
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"This is a collection well worth reading..."
"The essays in The Trial That Never Ends are interesting, readable, and offer fresh takes on the ongoing controversy surrounding Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem."
"The essays in The Trial That Never Ends are interesting, readable, and offer fresh takes on the ongoing controversy surrounding Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem." -- Lida Maxwell, Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College "The Trial That Never Ends provides a comprehensive and definitive account of the true historical and philosophic meaning of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. The essays respond to many of the charges levelled in recent years against Arendt and her work. We come to see that Eichmann in Jerusalem was not only a valiant attempt to grapple with the horrific past; it also peered prophetically into the evils that lurked ahead for the Jewish people, the state of Israel and indeed for civilization itself." -- Nalin Ranasinghe, Professor of Philosophy, Assumption College
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ISBN
9781487501464
Publisert
2017-03-07
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Richard J. Golsan is a University Distinguished Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Sarah M. Misemer is an associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A & M University. She is also the associate director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.