Visualizing Atrocity: Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness

by Valerie Hartouni

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814769764
• ISBN13: 9780814769768
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"