Barry Sharpe

Modesty and Arrogance in Judgment

Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Produktbeschreibung

Sharpe examines Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem as a case study of Arendt's theoretical work on judgment. In addition, he seeks to illustrate two dimensions of judgment: modesty-who am I to judge? and arrogance-how dare you judge me? He demonstrates the extent to which modesty and arrogance are linked with distance. The claims who am I to judge? and how dare you judge me? become questions of how much distance-in time, space, and imagination-is necessary or appropriate for judgment. Sharpe sees Eichmann as an unintentionally ironic demonstration of this feature of human interaction. Through his careful examination of Arendt's portrait of Adolf Eichmann and the Jewish Central Councils as well as by considering Eichmann in the context of Arendt's other work, Sharpe gives us a book that will be of great interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with contemporary political theory and Holocaust Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9780275964030
• ISBN-10: 0275964035
• Artikelnr.: 21978881

Autorenporträt

Barry Sharpe

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Man in the Glass Booth Speech and the Public Realm Modesty
and Individual Responsibility Arrogance in Judgment A Duty of Annoyance
Understanding and Representative Thinking A Choice of Company Bibliography
Index