La radicalidad del mal banal

‘Banality of evil’ was a concept introduced by Hannah Arendt in order to characterize a new form of wickedness embodied in people as Adolf Eichmann and others nazis criminals. Arendt thougt that this perverseness was very awey from the one of ‘radical evil’, a notion built by Kant and employed by Ar...

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Main Author: Julián Marrades
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2002-01-01
Series:Logos
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ASEM/article/view/17175
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Summary:‘Banality of evil’ was a concept introduced by Hannah Arendt in order to characterize a new form of wickedness embodied in people as Adolf Eichmann and others nazis criminals. Arendt thougt that this perverseness was very awey from the one of ‘radical evil’, a notion built by Kant and employed by Arendt herself in former works. This article seeks to point out that concepts of radical evil and banality of evil are closer than Arendt recognizes.
ISSN:1575-6866
1988-3242