![]() The show title translates as “a space in which to think about Hannah Arendt.” Which seems perfectly fitting, don’t you think? In a series of articles for The New Yorker that later became the book, Arendt tried to tackle a string of questions not necessarily answered by the trial itself: Where does evil come from? Why do people commit evil acts? How are those people different from the rest of us? A Volker Marz sculpture from the Berlin exhibition Hannah Arendt Denkraum. Arendt herself was a German-Jewish exile struggling in the most personal of ways to come to grips with the utter destruction of European society. ![]() Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt coined the term “banality of evil” while covering the 1961 trial of, a Nazi official charged with the orderly extermination of Europe’s Jews.
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