Hannaharendt

I’m not going to write a long review of Arendt’s report on Eichmann’s trial as I picked it up specifically to explore the elements of justice that are described therein. I also feel this is a difficult book to review; I have no historical expertise on the subject and am unqualified to evaluate anything about it other than, maybe, the prose. And the prose, I like. Arendt’s writing here—despite the topic—is quite a bit more “fun” than her writing in The Human Condition, in that she writes with a lot of irony and a dry humor. ...

Quick disclaimer to say that I am woefully unqualified to review Arendt. I am not well read philosophically. I picked this up alongside Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling because 1) it kept showing up in other books I read, notably GHAM and The Long Form; and 2) I am interested in ideas around “goodness” – what it is, how to be it, what it means to be it. Arendt speaks relatively little about goodness. ...