Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

by Marie Luise Knott

Book Overview

Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the "banality of evil," thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non-psychopathic people? By revealing the full complexity of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590517490
• ISBN13: 9781590517499
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"