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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 197–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Shmuel Lederman Abstract The article reexamines Hannah Arendt’s shift from “radical evil” in The Origins of Totalitarianism to “the banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem and subsequent writings. At the heart of this shift stands Arendt’s realization that she exaggerated the role of ideology...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Terence Holden Abstract Through a comparative analysis of their diagnosis of radical evil with the divergent ways in which Theodor W. Adorno and Hannah Arendt register and respond to the exhaustion of the modern regime of historicity, this article employs the terminology of historical anthropology...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 141–169.
Published: 01 February 2016
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does not end here. Writing in the postwar era and approximately a decade after
the close of the Nuremberg trials, Arendt also drew what many scholars of
conciliatory action consider the requisite boundary around forgiveness with
regard to radical evil by placing such evil beyond the scope...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2009
... that she does not equate
Eichmann with the man on the street, that is, the average citizen. Yet neither
is Eichmann a demonic character à la Macbeth, Richard III, or Iago. In con-
trast to these protagonists of radical evil, Eichmann acts seemingly without
motive. If one can speak of any motive...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 123–144.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., Hermeneutics, Entstellung.” In Institution and Interpretation , 73 – 84 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Whitebook Joel . 2004 . “Omnipotence and Radical Evil: On a Possible Rapprochement between Hannah Arendt and Psychoanalysis.” In Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
... Scholem’s enmity in the last letter he ever wrote to him:
“First with Taubes you met radical evil in person, . . . a Kabbalist of your
standing should not have to turn fty before getting to know radical evil.”2
This personal enmity was later given an even bitterer aftertaste by the sui-
cides of both...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... on a
notion of modernity as the fall into a disenchanted condition of radical evil. The
meaning of Kafka’s solipsism was fought over in the key aesthetic debate of
mid-twentieth-century German letters on the legacy of artistic modernism.8
What Georg Lukács attacked as pathology, Theodor W. Adorno...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 57–69.
Published: 01 November 2008
... in Kant’s treatise on radical evil. Cohen
establishes that they are founded on the disavowal of human existence. While
the doctrine of original sin declares humanity essentially depraved or declares
the depravity of humanity its essence, the doctrine of redemption is based on
a concept of human...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the hypothetical purpose of presenting Nazis as a “radical evil”; 118 on the contrary, those metaphors can only make them, in their dashing Hugo Boss uniforms, more appealing to a mass audience already enamored of vampires, cannibals, and serial killers. The danger that “the reader disarmed by the illusory...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 203–222.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for his thought. Let us begin with
the following passage, from the introduction of Negative Dialectics, where
Adorno writes, “Spirit, which casts off rationalization—its Bann—ceases by
virtue of its self-reflection to be the radical evil that goads it in what is other
[Geist, der die...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... correlate of late idealism’s hypertrophy of the
subject (K, 112). He finds it in Franz Kafka’s inability to distinguish between
the Creator and the Devil (“Portrait,” 235) and in Samuel Beckett’s supposed
nihilism, which “gnostically” understands the “world as it has been created
as radically evil...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 173–198.
Published: 01 November 2010
... was a lesser
evil in comparison with the products of nihilism, relativism, and radical his-
toricism. The aspiration to break with the spirit of modernity remained, but
insight into the lack of responsibility that characterized the nihilist solution led
Strauss to other paths. Awareness...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 67–111.
Published: 01 February 2012
... Torgerson, and Andrew
Wernick for providing helpful comments on various versions of this article.
1. Jürgen Habermas, “Psychic Thermidor and the Rebirth of Radical Subjectivity,” in Haber-
mas and Modernity, ed. Richard J. Bernstein (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), 67.
New German Critique 115, Vol...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
.... From its modern inception under Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, its links to the young Hegelian Max Stirner, and through its emergence as an alternative to Marxism and other ideologies, anarchist thought radically challenged existing institutions, including religion. Yet even Mikhail Bakunin speaks...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 21–44.
Published: 01 August 2020
... cultural diversity, have a potentiality of resistance to assimilatory practices. Thus, against Annabel Herzog’s assertion that “borders are necessary and have no intrinsic value,” 20 which renders borders a kind of ontological, necessary evil, I read Arendt’s essay as assertive of the intrinsic value...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 65–89.
Published: 01 August 2019
... been largely overlooked. 7 Starting with See Under: Love , Holocaust perpetrators are characterized through a mode that is sharply, even radically, opposed to the mode used in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published between the mid-1940s and the mid-1980s. As distinct and characteristic of the new...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 45–94.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Bundesrepub-
lik (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2003); Niven, Facing the Nazi Past; Michael Geyer, “The Politics
of Memory in Contemporary Germany,” in Radical Evil, ed. Joan Copjec (London: Verso, 1996),
169–200. Careful to avoid the temptation of teleology are Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer, Shat...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 143–171.
Published: 01 February 2024
... with Krystufek’s naked self-portraits to emphasize the pornographic character of deriving aesthetic pleasure from images of mass murderers. 38 Although the Jewish Museum had been planning Mirroring Evil long before it opened on March 17, 2002, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, radically...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 75–93.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Alexandra Tacke In abstract and sometimes deliberately alienating treatments of archival material, Eyal Sivan and Rony Brauman's Specialist (1999) and Romuald Karmakar's Himmler Project (2000) engage in impressive reconcretizations of Hannah Arendt's concept of the “banality of evil.” Both...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of mistaking itself for the absolute, that it is a mode of behavior” (P, 153; GS , 10.2:628). Additionally, Adorno claims that progress “wants to cut short the triumph of radical evil, not to triumph as such itself”; it is a resistance at all stages to total disaster (P, 160; GS , 10.2:638). And last...
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