The Sedanet Archive
All Posts
Every Sedanet article in one place: conversations, essays, translations and book reviews, with search, categories and sorting. Each petal of the medallion is a category; tap one.
2,725 posts · 10 categories
The Sedanet Archive
Every Sedanet article in one place: conversations, essays, translations and book reviews, with search, categories and sorting. Each petal of the medallion is a category; tap one.
2,725 posts · 10 categories
Hannah Arendt, examining the Eichmann trial, arrived at the concept of the 'banality of evil'—how ordinary people, within a totalitarian structure and having lost empathy, become agents of violence; an analysis of the stages of normalizing crime and the alliance between elites and the mob.