Hannah Arendt (2012)

Hannah Arendt (2012) In 1961, the noted GermanAmerican philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple monster, but an ordinary man who had thoughtlessly buried his conscience through his obedience to the Nazi regime and its ideology. Arendts expansion of this idea, presented in the articles for New Yorker, would create the concept of