The Shadow of Totalitarianism
Action, Judgment, and Evil in Politics
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2022
222 pages
978-1-4384-9001-4 (ISBN)
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Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-9001-4 (9781438490014)
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Javier Burdman is Research Fellow in the School for Interdisciplinary Social Studies at the National University of San Martin in Argentina.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Totalitarianism and the Problem of Evil in Politics
Part I: Action
1. Arendt's Reassessment of Responsibility
2. Kant on the Deceptiveness of Evil
Part II: Judgment
3. Kant on the Sublime and the Judgment of Action
4. Lyotard on Good and Evil in Postmodernity
Conclusion: Extreme Evil as a Response to Political Uncertainty
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Totalitarianism and the Problem of Evil in Politics
Part I: Action
1. Arendt's Reassessment of Responsibility
2. Kant on the Deceptiveness of Evil
Part II: Judgment
3. Kant on the Sublime and the Judgment of Action
4. Lyotard on Good and Evil in Postmodernity
Conclusion: Extreme Evil as a Response to Political Uncertainty
Notes
Bibliography
Index
