[lit-ideas] Re: *Eichmann in Jerusalem*

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:17:39 -0230

Quoting Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>:

> 
>  Judy Evans asks: Why "Hannah" but "Kant"?
> 
> (snip) ck: The air of overfamiliarity that accompanies use of 
> the first name, which could be construed as patronizing, is merely illusory.

Carol is quite right, of course. (How did you find out about Omi?)

Walter C. 
Programme for the Perpetuation of Fame and Opinion
New School for Social Research
New York, New York
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