A ruptura totalitária: antissemitismo, imperialismo e banalização do mal

Abstract

This work is the result of a theoretical research that on the analysis of arendtian thought, with the objective investigating the question of evil, strictly totalitarian, from the relation between human experience and understanding with the historical precedents that crystallized in totalitarianism. The development of conceptual activity was dedicated to the unfolding of evil in the functioning of civil society, this presupposition wanted to show evil in its absolute and banal dimensions. Within the objective, we constast the successive stages of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical activity, there we identified two moments of the author’s thought. The first concerns the political mechanisms specific to totalitarian regimes. The second, the bureaucratic evil evidenced in the process of Adolf Eichmann, characterized by the reflexive absence, demonstrates the banalization of evil. The problem raised by the conceptual analysis also offers the opportunity to explore the banality of evil as a modus operandi of discontinuity in continuity promoted by rupture as a problem that continues in our century.