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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"banality of evil"”.
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BEYOND BANALITY: REASSESSING THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARENDT'S 'BANALITY OF EVIL'
… to engage in a detailed philosophical critique of Hannah Arendt's influential concept of the ‘banality of evil’ and its inception around what she paints to be a mundane behaviour of Nazi life. Arendt's concept of the 'banality of evil' is articulated in her piece Eichmann in Jerusalem and is …
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
… a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by …
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Daimonion : A multi-disciplinary perspective on aggressive evil and its interconnection with individual psychology and criminal behavior
The present paper explores the phenomenon of aggressive evil debated through different, disciplinary perspectives and its understanding by connection to the inner psychology of the person and criminal behavior. The main theoretical sources of the present thesis come from the studies of P. Zimbardo …
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
This thesis interprets and connects a group of non-fiction works by Primo Levi (1919-1987), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), and James Baldwin (1924-1987). It hinges on three key texts: Levi’s I sommersi i salvati, his 1986 work on the significance of the Holocaust in which he theorised the ‘grey zone’; …
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Adolf Eichmann: a Reappraisal
The purpose of this reappraisal of Adolf Eichmann's character and career is to challenge Hannah Arendt's personification of Adolf Eichmann as a banal bureaucrat, which was presented in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Since the publication of her book in 1963 there …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… France configured everyday life as a ground of human existence and a resource for ethical enquiry. If novelistic innovation in the 1950s and 1960s has been typically associated with a turn away from lived experience and history, I argue that experimental novels by Michel Butor, Georges Perec, …