I'm reading Eichmann in Jerusalem, & something I wish I had been aware of sooner is that this is not just an important text about Nazis & the evils that ordinary people can commit without batting an eye.
It is *also* an important text about Israel & its history. Hannah Arendt is also critiquing Eichmann's trial as a type of show trial & pointing at the Zionist ideology & propaganda on display.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •I'm primarily reading because I'm interested in how Arendt's insights into the mentality of people facilitating genocide without feeling guilt or remorse can be reconsidered & reinterpreted in modern American life.
I don't know if I will fully agree with all of Arendt's interpretation, but it feels like her work is a great place to start.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •Is anyone aware of works by Black or Indigenous authors (or other POC) that either deal directly with Arendt & her ideas about the "banality of evil" or that cover similar topics?
I'm interested in the psychology of "normal" people who participate in, support, or tolerate genocide happening around them, & would especially benefit from perspectives of colonized people on this.
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