At the Brink of Law: Hannah Arendt�s Revision of the Judgment on Eichmann

• Autores: Christoph Menke
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 3, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: German Perspectives on the Social Sciences), págs. 585-611
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hannah Arendt�s Eichmann in Jerusalem ends with the repetition, and affirmation, of the court�s judgment on Eichmann. The article argues that this re-performance of the legal act of judgment follows precisely from the self-reflective problematization of legal judgment which Arendt�s book presents as the only way to do justice to the Eichmann case. Arendt�s Eichmann in Jerusalem should thus be read as an exploration of the paradox at the bottom of law.