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The shadow of totalitarianism : action, judgment, and evil in politics / Javier Burdman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burdman, Javier, 1983- author.
- Series:
- SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Series
- SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Act (Philosophy).
- Good and evil.
- Judgment (Logic).
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Totalitarianism.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
- Arendt, Hannah.
- Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.
- Lyotard, Jean-François.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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: 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438490014
- 1438490011
- OCLC:
- 1337067747
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