Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

ISBN-13: 9781138193604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 160 str.

Peter Burdon

Opis

This book uses Hannah Arendt's controversial text Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil to examine major themes in contemporary jurisprudence, including the nature of law, legal authority, the duty of citizens, the nexus between morality and law and political action. Hannah Arendt has plausibly been characterised as one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy: strikingly original and disturbingly unorthodox. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgements and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral. The book uses her reporting and subsequent reflections, as well as the responses to her work, to examine these themes in the context of classical and current debates in legal-political theory.

O autorze

Peter Burdon is Associate Professor and Reader at the Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia.