Resumen de At the Brink of Law: Hannah Arendt�s Revision of the Judgment on Eichmann

Christoph Menke

• Hannah Arendt�s Eichmann in Jerusalem ends with the repetition, and affirmation, of the court�s judgment on Eichmann. The article argues that this re-performance of the legal act of judgment follows precisely from the self-reflective problematization of legal judgment which Arendt�s book presents as the only way to do justice to the Eichmann case. Arendt�s Eichmann in Jerusalem should thus be read as an exploration of the paradox at the bottom of law.