Hannah Arendt

<p>Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law especially when existing law is judged as immoral. This book uses Hannah Arendt’s text <em>Eichmann in Jerusalem</em> to examine major themes in legal theory including the nature of law legal authority the duty of citizens the nexus between morality and law and political action.</p>