The Shadow of Totalitarianism : Action, Judgment, and Evil in Politics.
Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2022.
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| Liŋkkat: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252810 |
Sisdoallologahallan:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Totalitarianism and the Problem of Evil in Politics
- The Problem: A "New" Form of Evil
- Uncertainty
- The Nature of Totalitarian Crimes
- Subjective Evil and Bureaucratization
- Moral Foundations
- A Critical Political Theory of Evil
- Structure and Method
- Part 1: Action
- Chapter 1 Arendt's Reassessment of Responsibility
- Radical Evil and the Destruction of Responsibility
- Beginning, Disclosure, Distinctness
- Forgiveness and the Burden of Unpredictability
- Evil and Responsibility after Eichmann
- Responsibility between Thinking and Action
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2 Kant on the Deceptiveness of Evil
- Arendt, Eichmann, Kant
- Freedom and the Ground of Imputability
- The Choice of Evil
- Deception
- From Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil
- Conclusion
- Part 2: Judgment
- Chapter 3 Kant on the Sublime and the Judgment of Action
- Arendt's Turn to Kant's Third Critique
- Judgment between the Empirical and the Intelligible
- A Sublime Judgment
- A Supersensible Power
- Between Enthusiasm and Sublimity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Lyotard on Good and Evil in Postmodernity
- The Problem of Legitimacy and the Turn to Kant
- Critical, Political, and Reflective Judgment
- The Sublime and the Differend
- Universality as a Sublime Sign
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Extreme Evil as a Response to Political Uncertainty
- The Eichmann Problem and Responsibility
- Ideological Extremism
- Uncertainty and Totalitarianism
- Political and Moral Judgments
- The Politics of the Lesser Evil
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index