Visualizing Atrocity : Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness / Valerie Hartouni.
Hartouni, Valerie, author.
2012
DD247.E5 A734 2012
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Title Visualizing Atrocity : Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness / Valerie Hartouni.
Author Hartouni, Valerie, author.
ISBN 9780814738993
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814738498.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814738498.001.0001 doi
Call Number DD247.E5 A734 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318092
Summary 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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Series Critical Cultural Communication ; ; 3
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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