Hannah Arendt: Politics and Understanding after the Holocaust
Hannah Arendt: Politics and Understanding after the Holocaust
This chapter contains an essay by Hannah Arendt that depicts her perspective on the Holocaust, which is in contrast to the conventional explanation for the Holocaust. With the Holocaust described as ‘beyond human understanding’ Arendt contended that notion with alternative explanations that challenged the conventional perspective on the Holocaust, which was a symbol of a collapse in human history and a limit to the human understanding. The chapter provides details on her understanding of the Holocaust, death camps, and totalitarianism, and her juridical point of view, idea of humanity, and answers to the Question of Evil.
Keywords: beyond human understanding, death camps, totalitarianism, Question of Evil, Eichmann
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