The Trial That Never Ends : : Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' in Retrospect / / ed. by Richard J. Golsan, Sarah Misemer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Benhabib, Seyla,; Berman, Russell A.,; Bilsky, Leora,; Conway, Daniel,; Dean, Carolyn J.,; Douglas, Lawrence,; Golsan, Richard J.,; Hartouni, Valerie,; Misemer, Sarah M.,; Rousso, Henry,; Villa, Dana,
• HerausgeberIn: Golsan, Richard J.,; Misemer, Sarah ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: German and European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Arendt in Jerusalem: The Eichmann Trial, the Banality of Evil, and the Meaning of Justice Fifty Years On --; Chapter One. Judging the Past: The Eichmann Trial --; Chapter Two. Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the “Rule of Narrative” --; Chapter Three. Banality, Again --; Chapter Four. Eichmann on the Stand: Self-Recognition and the Problem of Truth --; Chapter Five. Arendt’s Conservatism and the Eichmann Judgment --; Chapter Six. Eichmann’s Victims, Holocaust Historiography, and Victim Testimony --; Chapter Seven. Truth and Judgment in Arendt’s Writing --; Chapter Eight. Arendt, German Law, and the Crime of Atrocity --; Chapter Nine. Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann’s or Hannah Arendt’s? The Eichmann Controversy Revisited --; Contributors --; Index --; German and European Studies
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487513221; 9783110665949
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487513221
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Richard J. Golsan, Sarah Misemer.

The fiftieth anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial may have come and gone but in many countries around the world there is a renewed focus on the trial, Eichmann himself, and the nature of his crimes. This increased attention also stimulates scrutiny of Hannah Arendt’s influential and controversial work, Eichmann in Jerusalem. The contributors gathered together by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer in The Trial That Never Ends assess the contested legacy of Hannah Arendt’s famous book and the issues she raised: the "banality of evil", the possibility of justice in the aftermath of monstrous crimes, the right of Israel to kidnap and judge Eichmann, and the agency and role of victims. The contributors also interrogate Arendt’s own ambivalent attitudes towards race and critically interpret the nature of the crimes Eichmann committed in light of newly discovered Nazi documents. The Trial That Never Ends responds to new scholarship by Deborah Lipstadt, Bettina Stangneth, and Shoshana Felman and offers rich new ground for historical, legal, philosophical, and psychological speculation.