Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963–) [EN, DE, IT, CZ, PL, ES, RU]

“Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.”

Originally appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker, 1963
Publisher Viking Press, 1963
Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1965
New edition with an Introduction by Amos Elon, Penguin Books, 2006

Wikipedia

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (English, 1963/2007, updated on 2021-2-25)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen (German, trans. Brigitte Granzow, 1964/2007, updated on 2021-2-25)
La banalità del male: Eichmann e Gerusalemme (Italian, trans. Piero Bernardini, 1964)
Eichmann v Jeruzalémě: zpráva o banalitě zla (Czech, trans. Martin Palouš, 1995)
Eichman w Jerozolimie: rzecz o banalności zła (Polish, trans. Adam Szostkiewicz, 1998)
Eichmann en Jerusalén: Un estudio sobre la banalidad del mal (Spanish, trans. Carlos Ribalta, 1999/2003, EPUB, updated on 2021-2-25)
Banalnost zla. Eykhman v Ierusalime (Russian, trans. Sergei Kastalsky and Natalia Rudnitskaya, 2008, DJVU)

Clifford Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (1973–) [EN, PT, CZ, ES, RU]

“In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.”

Publisher Basic Books, New York, 1973
ISBN 0465097197, 9780465097197
470 pages
via Sorin Danut

Wikipedia (EN)

The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (English, 1973/2000, updated on 2021-9-23)
A interpretação das culturas (Brazilian Portuguese, 1989/2008, via Rodrigo)
Interpretace kultur: Vybrané eseje (Czech, trans. Hana Červinková, Václav Hubinger and Hedvika Humlíčková, 2000)
La interpretación de las culturas (Spanish, trans. Alberto L. Bixio, 2003)
Интерпретация культур (Russian, trans. О.В. Барсукова, A.A. Борзунов, Г.М. Дашевский, Е.M. Лазарева and В.Г. Николаев, 2004)

Dolores L Augustine: Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 (2007)

“In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important part of East German socialist identity—crucial to how Communists saw their system and how citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus, Dolores Augustine examines the relationship between a dictatorial system and the scientific and engineering communities in East Germany from the end of the Second World War through the 1980s.

Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, and including many illlustrations and photographs that have never before been published, Augustine looks in detail at individual scientists’ interactions with the East German system, examining the effectiveness of their resistance against the party’s totalitarian impulses. She explains why many German scientists and engineers who were deported to the Soviet Union after World War II returned to East Germany rather than defecting to the capitalist West, traces scientists’ attempts to hold on to some aspects of professional autonomy, and describes challenges to their professional identity on the factory floor. Augustine examines the quality of science and technology produced under Communist rule, looking at failed research projects and clashing cultures of innovation. She looks at technological myth-building in science fiction and propaganda. She explores individual career strategies, including the role played by gender in high-tech professions, and the ways that both enterprises and individuals responded to increasing state and party control of research during the 1980s. We cannot understand the economic choices made by East Germany, Augustine argues, unless we understand the cultural values reflected in the East German belief in technology as indispensable to progress and industrial development.”

Publisher MIT Press, 2007
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology series
ISBN 0262012367, 9780262012362
381 pages

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