NAUMANN, Bernd; Introduction By Hannah Arendt.
Auschwitz: A Report On The Proceedings Against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka And Others Before The Court At Frankfurt.
New York: Frederick Praeger , 1966.
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First Edition of Auschwitz; Signed by Hannah Arendt
First edition of this overview of Auschwitz, with a powerful introduction by Hannah Arendt. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Hannah Arendt on the front pastedown, who contributed the introduction. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Jean Steinberg. Rare and desirable signed.
Hannah Arendt viewed Auschwitz and the Holocaust as a rupture in civilization that rendered traditional political and moral concepts obsolete. In her seminal work, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), she analyzed how totalitarian regimes manufactured a world where human beings were made superfluous. She argued that the death camps were not merely a product of past conditions but a new, radical form of evil emerging from thoughtless ideological zealotry. "The documentary value of this book is of the very first order - for historians, for jurists, for political scientists, for psychologists, and, last though not least, for all those who would rather face the truth than live will illusions in self-deception" Hannah Arendt).
Auschwitz: A Report On The Proceedings Against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka And Others Before The Court At Frankfurt.
$8,200.00
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