The trial that never ends : Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem in retrospect / edited by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golsan, Richard Joseph, 1952- editor.

Misemer, Sarah M., editor.

Series:

German and European studies ; 27.

German and European studies ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.

War crime trials--Jerusalem.

War crime trials.

Good and evil--History--20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt, Hannah).

Good and evil.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Judging the past : the Eichmann trial / Henry Rousso

Eichmann in Jerusalem : conscience, normality, and the "rule of narrative" / Dana Villa

Banality, again / Daniel Conway

Eichmann on the stand : self-recognition and the problem of truth / Valerie Hartouni

Arendt's conservatism and the Eichmann judgement / Russell A. Berman

Eichmann's victims, Holocaust historiography, and victim testimony / Carolyn J. Dean

Truth and judgement in Arendt's writing / Leora Bilsky

Arendt, German law and the crime of atrocity / Lawrence Douglas

Whose trial? Adolf Eichmann's or Hannah Arendt's? The Eichmann controversy revisited / Seyla Benhabib.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Rousso, Henry, 1954- Judging the past.

ISBN:

9781487501464

1487501463

OCLC:

961140882

Publisher Number:

99972587197