The influence of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason on the title figure is discussed in Chapter 8, "Duties of a Law- Abiding Citizen," which notes that the title figure had many opportunities for feeling like Pontius Pilate.
In the postscript to this book, the author compares the controversy it caused to that associated with Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy and discusses a comparison to the massacre at Kfar Kassem. The influence of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason on the title figure is discussed in Chapter 8, "Duties of a Law- Abiding Citizen," which notes that the title figure had many opportunities for feeling like Pontius Pilate. The title figure wanted to join the Freemasons, but his friend Ernst Kaltenbrunner invited him to join a less free-spirited organization; his activities with that organization were what brought him to the "House of Justice" described in the opening chapter of this work, which also includes four chapters on deportations and one on "the killing centers in the East." FTP, name this book which first appeared in the New Yorker in 1963, a "report on the banality of evil" written by Hannah Arendt after observing a Nazi's trial.
In the postscript to this book, the author compares the controversy it caused to that associated with Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy and discusses a comparison to the massacre at Kfar Kassem.
{Eichmann in Jerusalem}