Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

by Peter Burdon

Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral. This book uses Hannah Arendt's text Eichmann in Jerusalem to examine major themes in legal theory, including the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036723226X
• ISBN13: 9780367232269
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"