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Responsibility and Judgment
by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an
Introduction by Jerome Kohn
Schocken, 2003 336 pp $25
Letters 1925-1975: Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
edited by Ursula Ludz
translated by Andrew Shields
Harcourt, 2004 360 pp $28
by Hannah Arendt, edited and with an
Introduction by Jerome Kohn
Schocken, 2003 336 pp $25
Letters 1925-1975: Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
edited by Ursula Ludz
translated by Andrew Shields
Harcourt, 2004 360 pp $28
Dissent played a part in the controversy over Eichmann in Jerusalem. In 1963, when Hannah Arendt's articles for the New Yorker on Adolf Eichmann's trial in an Israeli court provoked consternation in intellectual journals and condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League, Irving Howe decided to hold a public forum, under the auspices of the magazine, to invite the principals to debate. Arendt declined. Daniel Bell and Raul Hilberg took Arendt's side, with Howe moderating, and met a violent clamor of opposition.
History remembers the forum for its breakdown of civility among the New ...
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