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Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

Name: Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138193604
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Author: Peter Burdon
ISBN: 9781138193604

By Peter Burdon

Routledge September 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781138193604
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: September 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book uses Hannah Arendt’s controversial text Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil to examine major themes in contemporary jurisprudence, including the nature of law, legal authority, the duty of citizens, the nexus between morality and law and political action. Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy: strikingly original and disturbingly unorthodox.

After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgements and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral.

The book uses her reporting and subsequent reflections, as well as the responses to her work, to examine these themes in the context of classical and current debates in legal-political theory.

1. Introduction: The Eichmann Fires

2. The House of Judgment

3. The Gray Zone: Kapo Trials

4. The Accused

5. From Expulsion to Extermination

6. Wannsee: The Enabling Conference

7. Duties of a Law Abiding Citizen

8. The Deportation Chapters

9. Did Eichmann Receive a Fair Trial?

10. Judgment

11. Reading Eichmann Today

12. The Last Nazi Trials and Forgiveness