Preface

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maria Fernanda Palma: The Banality of Evil or the Exceptionality of Good in Totalitarian Societies

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Paulo Otero: The Eichmann Trial: Evil as a Reaction Against Evil?

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Alexandre Franco de Sá: From the Total State to Totalitarianism: Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt

Massimo La Torre: Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Law. Against the Tradition

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Rui Guerra da Fonseca: Eichmann in Jerusalem: Between the Legal and the Political in Hannah Arendt's Thought

Introduction

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Conclusion

António Araújo: Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann: Of Radical Evil and Its Banality

Luís Pereira Coutinho: The Banality of Evil as Absence of Law

Introduction

I. The Banality of Evil as Absence of Meaning

II. Absence of Meaning as Absence of Law

Miguel Nogueira de Brito: When Thinking Is Acting: The Concept of the Banality of Evil as a Key to Hannah Arendt's Political Thought

Introduction: Reserve Police Battalion 101

I. The Banality of Evil: From the Words to the Idea

II. A Secular Conception of Evil?

III. The Idea of the Banality of Evil in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy

1. Arendt's Cosmopolitanism

2. Thinking and the Political Life

3. Obedience and Consent

4. Truth in Political Thought

Paulo de Sousa Mendes: Judging Eichmann to Render Justice

Introduction

I. Searching for Justice

II. Staging a Show Trial

III. The Prosecution Strategy

IV. The Jerusalem Court's Judgment

V. Rendering Justice

VI. Arendt's Thoughts on the Banality of Evil

Conclusion

Kai Ambos: Some Considerations on the Eichmann Case

Introduction

I. Outsiders vs. Insiders and the Fair Trial

II. The Type of Liability Applied to Eichmann: Principal, Accomplice or Something Else?

Miguel Galvão Teles: 50 Years On Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Specific Mode of Criminal Law Retroactivity

Introduction

I. The Question of Retroactivity of the Incriminations from the Standpoint of International Law at the Time

II. Ethico-Legal Consideration of the Incriminations: Retroactivity Regarding Facts that Came to be Characterised, lato sensu, as Crimes Against Humanity

Augusto Silva Dias: The Milgram Experiment and Criminal Liability: An Essay on the Banality of Evil

I. The Milgram Experiment: Results and Impact

II. The Banality of Evil and Crimes Committed in Obedience to Authority: Organized Power Apparatus

Cristina García Pascual: Can Absolute Evil Be Brought to Justice?

Introduction

I. What Is Absolute Evil?

1. Conceptualisation

2. An Evil Without Depth

II. Coping with Absolute Evil

1. Political Problems

2. Moral Problems

3. Legal Problems

An Uncertain Conclusion

Pablo Galain Palermo and Álvaro Garreaud: Truth Commissions and the Reconstruction of the Past in the Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone: Concerning the Limitations for Understanding Evil

Introduction

I. From Radicality to the Banality of Evil

II. Toward an Understanding of Crimes Committed in the Southern Cone

III. Mechanisms of Intervention for the Comprehension and Resolution of Past Crimes

IV. Conclusions

List of Contributors