The Arendt Wars Continue: Richard Wolin v. Seyla Benhabib
Richard Wolin has written a response to Seyla Benhabib’s New York Times piece on Arendt and Eichmann. I hesitate to weigh in on this controversy for two reasons. First, I know both Richard and Seyla,...
View ArticleDid Hannah Arendt Ever See Eichmann Testify? A Second Reply to Richard Wolin
In his critique of Seyla Benhabib’s account of the Arendt/Eichmann controversy, which I wrote about earlier today, Richard Wolin makes an additional claim I’ve been puzzling over: Second, a perusal of...
View ArticleDayenu in Reverse: The Passover Canon of Arendt’s Critics
One of the more recent criticisms I’ve read of Eichmann in Jerusalem—in Bettina Stangneth’s and Deborah Lipstadt’s books—is that far from seeing, or seeing through, Eichmann, Arendt was taken in by his...
View ArticleArendt, Israel, and Why Jews Have So Many Rules
For more than five decades, readers of Eichmann in Jerusalem have accused Hannah Arendt of being a self-hating Jew. In the current issue of The Nation, I turn that accusation on its head. Eichmann in...
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