This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless be an agent of the most extreme evil evoked derision, outrage, and misunderstanding. Please try your request again later.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Her warning is for us all that democracy carries heavy civic responsibility and all citizens must inform themselves of the issues before moving headlong into action. "Ich habe mich an die Lebenspholosophie von Kannt immer gehalten" were the words of Eichmann.
Kohn gave a good account of Arendt's life and development of her scholarship and thought. Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. Libro, come forse tutti della Arendt, magistrale ...con questa tesi, documentata filosoficamente e storicamente con riferimento al processo Eichmann, della responsabilità morale personale non come ferrovecchio di epoche passate ma come il cuore della identità personale di fronte alle sfide non solo dei totalitarismi ma anche e più prosaicamente di ogni concezione dello stato inteso come macchina burocratica. The publication of Responsibility and Judgment is thus a particularly welcome event. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Since Theory of Justice was published, it sort of makes these books obsolete, but, they are, nevertheless, worth while reading for background. Arendt died in 1975. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. We also see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed. I would definitely would recommend this book, for it is well written and interesting to read.
Hannah, going through so many works of Philosophy even literature, was citing and indicating that moral and ethical precept can be imputed to all human beings but that under certain circumstances they simply lessen save their inner consciousness vociferously and foremost vicariously is taking the upper hand. This was one of most interesting books of Hannah Arendt with which she was trying to depict the moral and ethical condition of human being through the lenses of great thinkers such as Bible, Meister Eckhart, Plato to St. Augustine, Cicero, Kant and many others. A great read.
Apr 02, 2009 | ISBN 9780307544056 Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. This was one of most interesting books of Hannah Arendt with which she was trying to depict the moral and ethical condition of human being through the lenses of great thinkers such as Bible, Meister Eckhart, Plato to St. Augustine, Cicero, Kant and many others.
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She concludes memorably: “When the facts come home to roost, let us try at least to make them welcome. Her book THE ORIGINS OF TOLITARIANISM "put her on the map," and her later works such as EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A STUDY IN THE BANALITY OF EVIL got both praise and condemnation. As she puts it: "one does not to read all the works of Kant, Plato ... in order to discern bad deed from the good one. As she puts it: "one does not to read all the works of Kant, Plato ... in order to discern bad deed from the good one. But to achieve Right Reason requires secular study divorced from emotion - a process every individual must master before venturing an opinion or acting within modern organizations. Please try your request again later.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed.
Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices.
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Home to Roost, the final essay of this collection, reflecting on the decades preceding the U.S. bicentennial and written shortly before her death, is among the best of her works. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
An excellent introduction to The Life of the Mind, I think.
The firestorm of controversy prompted Arendt to readdress fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. An amazing collection of essays that show you how Arendt built her thought. Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy Her sarcastic conclusion: “not amnesty but amnesia will heal all our wounds.” One cannot help but wonder how harshly she might have judged President Obama’s similar approaches in both the Iraq War and the financial crisis of 2008.
+ No Import Fees Deposit & $9.13 Shipping to Germany Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. At the heart of this book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy”; in it Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. Responsibility and Judgment is an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time. Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations.
Arendt's RESPONSIBILITHY AND JUDGEMENT is a sort of a continuation of EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM, and Arendt showed insight, careful thinking and a serious warning.