Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt • 1963
Devastation Rating
Holocaust philosophy trial evil
Our Take
Arendt watched Eichmann's trial and coined the phrase that changed how we think about evil: the banality of evil. Eichmann was not a monster. He was a bureaucrat. The horror is not that he was unusual but that he was ordinary. A book that makes you question every institution you participate in.
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