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Book SynopsisRe-assesses the myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding of the Nazi genocide as well as totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features
Trade ReviewValerie Hartounis volume reinterprets Hannah Arendts controversial reflections on political evil in the twentieth century. [] It should be apparent that there is a great of continuity in Arendts thought in regard to her conception of the system of rule that rendered human beings superfluous. And it is in this regard that Hartouni makes her greatest contribution, both stressing and reinterpreting Arendts insight that & totalitarian solutions did not end with the demise of the German totalitarian dictatorship and that & the Nazi projecthad changed the conditions of the lifeworld or the living-together of people. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
By relating the visual to the criminal and political issues of the Nazi genocide, Eichmann, and Arendt, Hartouni poses critical questions on justice and morality that resonant in other genocides and in our time. -- Lia Deromedi * Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory *
Hartouni provides simply the finest analysis of the issues involved in Arendts reading of Eichmann and the failure of the trial to recognize a new crime, the crime of the bureaucracy and & the optics of thoughtlessness.Visualizing Atrocityis a masterful accomplishment and should take its place as the leading work at the intersection of political and normative judgement with visual projection. -- Wayne Morrison * Theoretical Criminality *
A compelling and broad-reaching manuscript that will be of great interest not only to scholars of Arendt and Eichmann, but to those who want to think more generally about the interrelationship of political judgment and visual culture. -- Judith Butler,University of California, Berkeley
Visualizing Atrocity is a masterful accomplishment and should take its place as the leading work at the intersection of political and normative judgement with visual projection. * Theoretical Crimonology *
Table of Contents1 Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Contextualizing the Debate 2 Ideology and Atrocity 3 Thoughtlessness and Evil 4 "Crimes against the Human Status": Nuremberg and the Image of Evil 5 The Banality of Evil
