Robert Fine
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239659
- eISBN:
- 9781846314087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239659.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter contains an essay by Hannah Arendt that depicts her perspective on the Holocaust, which is in contrast to the conventional explanation for the Holocaust. With the Holocaust described as ...
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This chapter contains an essay by Hannah Arendt that depicts her perspective on the Holocaust, which is in contrast to the conventional explanation for the Holocaust. With the Holocaust described as ‘beyond human understanding’ Arendt contended that notion with alternative explanations that challenged the conventional perspective on the Holocaust, which was a symbol of a collapse in human history and a limit to the human understanding. The chapter provides details on her understanding of the Holocaust, death camps, and totalitarianism, and her juridical point of view, idea of humanity, and answers to the Question of Evil.Less
This chapter contains an essay by Hannah Arendt that depicts her perspective on the Holocaust, which is in contrast to the conventional explanation for the Holocaust. With the Holocaust described as ‘beyond human understanding’ Arendt contended that notion with alternative explanations that challenged the conventional perspective on the Holocaust, which was a symbol of a collapse in human history and a limit to the human understanding. The chapter provides details on her understanding of the Holocaust, death camps, and totalitarianism, and her juridical point of view, idea of humanity, and answers to the Question of Evil.
