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Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and author of The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) and editor of Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt (Cambridge University Press).

October 14, 2014

Eichmann, Arendt, and “The Banality of Evil”

By: Richard Wolin, Seyla Benhabib

Richard Wolin’s review of a new book about Adolf Eichmann caused a stir, mainly about Arendt. His exchange with Seyla Benhabib on the banality (or not) of evil.

October 14, 2014

Richard Wolin on Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” Thesis

By: Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib responds to Richard Wolin's critique of her review of Bettina Stangneth's Eichmann Before Jerusalem.