Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, Eichmann in Jerusalem- A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics.
Hannnah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution, and Between Past and Future (all available from Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).
“Brilliant and disturbing.” —Stephen Spender, The New York Review
of Books
“Profound . . . This book is bound to stir our minds and trouble
our consciences.” —Chicago Tribune
“Deals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of
the human being within a modern totalitarian system.” —Bruno
Bettelheim, The New Republic
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