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Eichmann in Jerusalem

Also known as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

A work by Hannah Arendt, first published in 1963

At a glance

  • What korrents draws from it

    Justice demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and rules out the pleasures of the limelight, Under the Nazi regime, evil lost the quality by which most people recognize it: temptation, Denmark's people and government behaved uniquely among all European countries in the story of the Danish Jews …

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  • Connections

    Hannah Arendt

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Key facts

First published
19632
Edition korrents quotes
Penguin Classics, 2006 edition3
Claims on korrents
111

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Justice demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and rules out the pleasures of the limelight (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Under the Nazi regime, evil lost the quality by which most people recognize it: temptation (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Denmark's people and government behaved uniquely among all European countries in the story of the Danish Jews (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Every custom has its origin in some single act (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Whatever the punishment, once a crime has first appeared, its reappearance is more likely than its first emergence was (opens korrents.com)1

  6. A court's jurisdiction must be settled before trial, and a court found competent must also pass judgment (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Hannah Arendt

Sources

  1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Eichmann in Jerusalem, Q480743 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) (books.google.com) (opens books.google.com)

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