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Subject·Moral responsibility✕clear
Nonfiction

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt
1963 · 312 pages

Reporting from the Jerusalem trial of the Nazi official who organized the deportations, Arendt found not a monster but a careerist who never thought. Her phrase, the banality of evil, still starts fights.

★ 7.9