Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt: In her account, first serialized in the New Yorker in 1962, Arendt struck by Eichmanns courtroom manner, which was that of a drab bureaucrat, not a sadistic monster famously declared that the lesson of the trial this long course in human wickedness was its revelation of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. The Act of Killing: Lights, camera, genocide Editorial cartoon How can we recognize evil and guard against it? The questions are prompted by the compelling recent film about the response of German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt to the trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi functionary and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. The long process of bringing thinker Hannah Arendt to life on the screen (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.