El concepto de 'Banalidad del mal' en Hannah Arendt
Author | Carlos Kohn, Yubitza Zarate |
Pages | 433-444 |
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Nos convertimos en no se me ocurre otra palabra en un animal gregario…
Sí, un animal de costumbres; y, cuando recibimos una orden, damos
automáticamente un taconazo y decimos 'jawohl'.
Una de las exhortaciones más significativas queha legado
Hannah Arendt en su gran obrade 1951,
fue haberle planteado al pensamiento filosófico la inconmensurable
tarea de reflexionar sobre los hechos acaecidos en los campos de
concentración nazi, que ella refiere como “la carga de nuestro tiempo”,
o, como bien lo explica Fernando Bárcena: “el sufrimiento del ser
humano (en esos campos) es lo que, desgraciadamente, constituye la
horrible novedad del siglo XX. Un siglo que no se ha caracterizado
precisamente por la muerte de Dios, sino por la muerte del hombre, por la
muerte de lo humano y de la humanidad” (2). O, a decir, de Adornoy
Horkheimer: “una humanidad… (que se ha) hundidoen un nue vo género
Declaración de Eichmann en su juicio, el 18 de junio de 196 1 (1)
1. Introducción
Los orígenes del totalitarismo
El conceptode “Banalidaddel mal” enHannah Arendt
Yubitza ZaratCarlos Kohn ye
Instituto de Filosofía
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Caracas - Venezuela
carloskohn59@gmail.com; yubizarate@gmail.com
Revista de Filosofía, Jurídica, Social y Política
Instituto de Filosofía del Derecho “Dr. José M. Delgado Ocando”
Universidad del Zulia. ISSN 1315-6268 Dep. Legal pp 199402ZU33
Vol.23, No.3, 2016:
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