LEADER 03634nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910822474203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-6976-4 010 $a0-8147-3899-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814738993 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234189 035 $a(EBL)1002908 035 $a(OCoLC)809846968 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000739759 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11473224 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000739759 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687998 035 $a(PQKB)10800014 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326215 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1002908 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19216 035 $a(DE-B1597)547247 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814738993 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234189 100 $a20111223d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVisualizing atrocity $eArendt, evil, and the optics of thoughtlessness /$fValerie Hartouni 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 225 0 $aCritical cultural communication 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-7183-1 311 0 $a0-8147-3849-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Arendt and the Trial of Adolf Eichmann --$t2. Ideology and Atrocity --$t3. Thoughtlessness and Evil --$t4. ?Crimes against the Human Status? Nuremberg and the Image of Evil --$t5. The Banality of Evil --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aVisualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt?s provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism?s broader, constitutive, and recurrent features. These myths are inextricably tied to and reinforced viscerally by the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps at the war?s end and played an especially important, evidentiary role in the postwar trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking and seeing were first established with respect to these images that were later reinforced and institutionalized through Eichmann?s trial in Jerusalem as simply part of the fabric of historical fact. They have come to constitute a certain visual rhetoric that now circumscribes the moral and political fields and powerfully assists in contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt?s claims about the ?banality of evil? work to disrupt this visual rhetoric. More significantly still, they direct our attention well beyond the figure of Eichmann to a world organized now as then by practices and processes that while designed to sustain and even enhance life work as well to efface it. 410 0$aCritical Cultural Communication 606 $aWar crime trials$zJerusalem$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aWar crime trials$xHistory 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 676 $a940.5318092 700 $aHartouni$b Valerie$01673052 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822474203321 996 $aVisualizing atrocity$94038470 997 $aUNINA