Title Visualizing atrocity : Arendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness / Valerie Hartouni

Published New York : New York University Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Critical cultural communication Critical cultural communication. Contents Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann : Contextualizing the Debate -- Ideology and Atrocity -- Thoughtlessness and Evil -- "Crimes Against the Human Status" : Nuremberg and the Image of Evil -- The Banality of Evil Summary Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social views Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 -- Trials, litigation, etc SUBJECT Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 fast Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt, Hannah) fast Subject War crime trials -- Jerusalem -- History -- 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany. Genocide -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Good and evil -- Political aspects Good and evil -- Social aspects HISTORY -- Holocaust. LAW -- Media & the Law. Atrocities Genocide Good and evil -- Social aspects Political and social views War crime trials Germany Middle East -- Jerusalem Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Trials, litigation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814771839 0814771831 9780814738993 0814738990

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