| 词汇 | banality of evil |
| 词源 | banality of evil. Coined by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), about the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official in charge of deporting the Jews of Europe to the death camps. The book’s subtitle is A Report on the Banality of Evil, and its last words are banality of evil. Arendt was reporting Eichmann’s trial when she coined the controversial phrase. |
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