Traumatized Heroes
Living with wrongdoing
Hope for the future is only possible if we choose peace by stopping the killing and resist the temptation of avenging heroism....
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Arendt, Eichmann, and Thoughtlessness
According to Arendt’s emphatic and paradoxical thesis, [Eichmann] was an enemy of humanity from “thoughtlessness.” “It was a sheer thoughtlessness -- something by no means identical with stupidity -- that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period” (285; G: 57).* This (and only this) is ...
Thought-Defying Evil
In the summer of 1945 Melvin Lasky, who was stationed in Germany with the American occupation forces, visited Karl Jaspers. Lasky, a correspondent for the Partisan review, mentioned the name of Hannah Arendt. Jaspers had lost contact with Arendt since 1938 and was stunned to discover that she was still ...
