Bettina Stangneth (born 1966) is a German philosopher. Known for her work on
antisemitism
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and
National Socialism
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, she is the author of several books, including ''
Eichmann Before Jerusalem'' (2014), which won an NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis (non-fiction book award) in 2011 when it was first published in German.
Stangneth was awarded her PhD by the
University of Hamburg
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in 1997 for a thesis on
Immanuel Kant
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.
[Stangneth, Bettina (2000). ''Kultur der Aufrichtigkeit: Zum systematischen Ort von Kants Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft''. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. ]
Selected works
* (2000). ''Kultur der Aufrichtigkeit: Zum systematischen Ort von Kants Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft''. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
* (2003). ''Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft/Immanuel Kant.'' Hamburg: Meiner.
* (2011). ''Eichmann vor Jerusalem: Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmörders''. Zürich: Arche.
** (2014). ''Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer.'' New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
* (2012). ''Lüge! Alles Lüge! Aufzeichnungen des Eichmann-Verhörers Avner Werner Less.'' Zürich: Arche.
* (2016). ''Böses Denken''. Reinbek: Rowohlt.
* (2017). ''Lügen lesen''. Reinbek: Rowohlt.
* (2019). ''Hässliches Sehen''. Reinbek: Rowohlt.
* (2020). ''Sexkultur''. Reinbek: Rowohlt.
References
Further reading
*
Evans, Richard J. (17 October 2014)
"Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer – review ''The Guardian''.
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1966 births
Living people
20th-century German philosophers
21st-century German philosophers
German women philosophers
University of Hamburg alumni
20th-century German women
21st-century German women