Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook354 pages6 hours
Responsibility and Judgment
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless be an agent of the most extreme evil evoked derision, outrage, and misunderstanding. The firestorm of controversy prompted Arendt to readdress fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, as she struggled to explicate the meaning of Eichmann in Jerusalem.
At the heart of this book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy”; in it Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed.
Responsibility and Judgment is an essential work for understanding Arendt’s conception of morality; it is also an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time.
At the heart of this book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy”; in it Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed.
Responsibility and Judgment is an essential work for understanding Arendt’s conception of morality; it is also an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time.
Unavailable
Author
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) is considered one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. A political theorist and philosopher, she is also the author of Crises of the Republic, On Violence, The Life of the Mind, and Men in Dark Times. The Origins of Totalitarianism was first published in 1951.
Read more from Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Origins Of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Men in Dark Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Violence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLectures on Kant's Political Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love and Saint Augustine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Responsibility and Judgment
Related ebooks
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe contract of mutual indifference: Political philosophy after the Holocaust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPast and Present: The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGenocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStates Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCriticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStalin's Genocides Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Future of Memory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Genres of Privacy in Postwar America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAthens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Re-Figuring Hayden White Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCollected Couteau. Essays and Interviews (Third, Revised Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHannah Arendt and the Crisis of Israeli Democracy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWilliam Godwin: A Political Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Human Rights and the Uses of History Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Justice Is Conflict Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angela Davis: An Autobiography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dynamics of Nazism: Leadership, Ideology, and the Holocaust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFLOURISH: Democracy or Hypocrisy: Democracy or Hypocrisy: BOOK II of the TRILOGY Renaissance: Healing The Great Divide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Philosophy For You
Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Four Loves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Loving Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plato's Republic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bhagavad Gita - The Song of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Be Here Now Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bhagavad Gita (in English): The Authentic English Translation for Accurate and Unbiased Understanding Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5History of Western Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Responsibility and Judgment
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews