TY  - JOUR 
TI  - El mal radical y la banalidad del mal: las dos caras del horror de los regímenes totalitarios desde la perspectiva de Hannah Arendt
PB  - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
PY  - 2013
issn 0120-5323
AB  - This article aims to analyze Arendtian notions of "radical evil" and "banality of evil" with their respective relations. Arendt described terror as the "essence" of totalitarian regime. This terror differs from the most familiar cases of revolutionary or tyrannical terror the former not being really a means at all, but a process without a goal. Its goal was to reveal the sheer superfluousness of human beings, to show that there are no limits inherent to power's ability to dehumanize individuals. Arendt introduced the notion of "radical evil" to describe atrocious crimes of totalitarian regimes. But she goes from the idea of radical evil to the controversial notion of banality of evil. This notion occurred to her during the coverage Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem for The New Yorker. Arendt describes with the notion of the banality of evil a bureaucratic agent that makes atrocious crimes without the presence of a wicked motive or ideological fervor.
KW  - Ciencia política
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Totalitarismo
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
KW  - Mal radical
KW  - Radical evil
KW  - Banalidad del mal
KW  - Banality of evil
KW  - Terror
KW  - Irreflexión
KW  - Thoughtlessness
KW  - Pensamiento político
KW  - Political thought
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78390
ER  -