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Rereading Eichmann in Jerusalem

  • Hannah Marije Altorf (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleRereading Eichmann in Jerusalem
ContributorHannah Marije Altorf (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH12
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractHannah Marije Altorf, in her contribution, “Rereading <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i>,” tracks the dispute that emerged on Arendt’s <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i> (1963), one of the most controversial works of the twentieth century. The focus of the dispute has changed over time, though one constant is the accuracy of the facts presented. Whereas the debate of the facts is important, it will not take away the controversy, because facts never appear in isolation, but are always part of an arrangement or larger story. What is more, such a dispute can hide some causes of the controversy. Altorf offers a reading of <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i> that considers two stories as pivotal, namely the stories about two Germans, Feldwebel Anton Schmidt and Probst Heinrich Grüber. The reading shows that Arendt’s primary focus is on moral questions and moral collapse.
Keywords
  • Arendt
  • Eichmann
  • Story
Contributors

Hannah Marije Altorf

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Hannah Marije Altorf is a research fellow at the Iris Murdoch Research Centre, University of Chichester. She has written on the philosophical and literary works of Iris Murdoch and different forms of philosophical dialogue. She is the author of Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining (Continuum 2008) and, together with Mariëtte Willemsen, she translated The Sovereignty of Good into Dutch (Boom 2003). She is an experienced facilitator of Socratic dialogues in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany and is writing a book on public philosophy, tentatively called Thinking in Public.