The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 16 “What For Eichmann Was A Job…Was For The Jews Quite Literally The End Of The World” 14. (EICHMANN, Adolf) ARENDT, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem. AReport on the Banality of Evil. New York, 1963. Octavo, original tan cloth, dust jacket. $650. Click for more info First edition of Arendt’s most famous and most controversial work on “the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.” On publication Eichmann in Jerusalem ignited a furor that continues to this day. Arendt’s contention that modernity demands a new sense of good and evil radically challenges basic legal and cultural beliefs. Serialized earlier the same year in The New Yorker . Small numerical notation to dust jacket verso. Only faint edge-wear to bright dust jacket. A fine copy. “In politics obedience and support are the same.”