In 1960, Israel announced that it had arrested Adolf Eichmann, a former high-ranking Nazi German official and known as the "death executor," and he was tried in Jerusalem in 1961. The famous Jewish female philosopher Hannah Arendt, who has lived in the United States for many years, was invited by The New Yorker to write for the trial. When she went to Jerusalem to watch the trial, she found a disagreement between Eichmann's statement, public opinion, and her own philosophical thinking. When she raised Eichmann's behavior to a philosophical level, her articles unsurprisingly triggered criticism and criticism in the society, and some of her old friends even broke off ties with her. The most proud female student under Heidegger's school tried to retreat in the storm, but found that everything was not as simple as she had expected.
Hannah Arendt movie plot
2022-01-19 08:03
Extended Reading
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Kamille 2022-03-18 09:01:07
Chinese people never think about the historical view that evil is mediocre and good is radical. Good and evil are by no means binary oppositions.
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Rosalind 2022-03-17 09:01:08
Taking the Nuremberg Trial to point to the face, through the trial of Eichmann's mediocre evil, it refers to the fundamental problems of the entire modern society. The abandonment of personal thinking and judgment is more due to consumerism in the West. In the East, there is not only consumerism, but also the worship of power and the coercion of Big Brother.
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Hannah Arendt: He swears he never personally harmed a Jew.
Kurt Blumenfeld: So he claims!
Hannah Arendt: Isn't it interesting that a man who did everything a murderous system asked of him, who even seems eager to give precise details of his fine work, that this man insists the personally has nothing against Jews.
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Mary McCarthy: [interrupting a German discussion] Whatever you are saying, I agree with all of you.
Hannah Arendt: Everybody, English now, please.