Visualizing atrocity : Arendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness /
Hartouni, Valerie,
Visualizing atrocity : Arendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness / Valerie Hartouni. - 1 online resource - Critical cultural communication . - Critical cultural communication. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann : Contextualizing the Debate -- Ideology and Atrocity -- Thoughtlessness and Evil -- "Crimes Against the Human Status" : Nuremberg and the Image of Evil -- The Banality of Evil.
Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it.
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 --Criticism and interpretation.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 --Political and social views.
Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt, Hannah)
1900-1999
War crime trials--History--Jerusalem--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
Genocide--History--Germany--20th century.
Good and evil--Political aspects.
Good and evil--Social aspects.
Procès (Crimes de guerre)--Histoire--Jérusalem--20e siècle.
Holocauste, 1939-1945.
HISTORY--Holocaust.
LAW--Media & the Law.
Atrocities.
Genocide.
Good and evil--Social aspects.
Political and social views.
War crime trials.
Germany.
Middle East--Jerusalem.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
DD247.E5 / A734 2012eb
940.53/18092
Visualizing atrocity : Arendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness / Valerie Hartouni. - 1 online resource - Critical cultural communication . - Critical cultural communication. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann : Contextualizing the Debate -- Ideology and Atrocity -- Thoughtlessness and Evil -- "Crimes Against the Human Status" : Nuremberg and the Image of Evil -- The Banality of Evil.
Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war's end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it.
9780814771839 (electronic bk.) 0814771831 (electronic bk.) 9780814738993 (electronic bk.) 0814738990 (electronic bk.)
EC3A1F9C-1D07-480E-ABD6-2067ADADCCAD OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt8jv68n JSTOR
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 --Criticism and interpretation.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 --Political and social views.
Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt, Hannah)
1900-1999
War crime trials--History--Jerusalem--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
Genocide--History--Germany--20th century.
Good and evil--Political aspects.
Good and evil--Social aspects.
Procès (Crimes de guerre)--Histoire--Jérusalem--20e siècle.
Holocauste, 1939-1945.
HISTORY--Holocaust.
LAW--Media & the Law.
Atrocities.
Genocide.
Good and evil--Social aspects.
Political and social views.
War crime trials.
Germany.
Middle East--Jerusalem.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
DD247.E5 / A734 2012eb
940.53/18092