...problem of political evil. Indeed, in an essay written for the Partisan Review in 1945 Arendt writes, ‘The problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe. ‘¿ Furthermore, as I attempted to show earlier, the first volume of Ly”e of the Mind takes...

...Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil: From Superfluousness to Thoughtlessness In 1945, Arendt declared: "The problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe" (EU, 134). She was wrong. Most postwar intellectuals avoided any direct confrontation with...

...Mind? From Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil Richard J. Bernstein In 1945 Hannah Arendt declared: "The problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe." 1 Arendt was wrong. Most postwar intellectuals avoided any direct confrontation with the problem...

...in common was an awareness, even an obsession, with the crimes of the twentieth century. In Arendt's words, “the problem of evil will be the fundamental...intellectual life in Europe—as death became the fundamental question after the last war.” 60 Camus did not make a notably distinctive contribution to the discussion...

...analysis, viewing events in terms of universal processes and “human” capacities. In 1945, she stated: “The reality is that ‘the Nazis are men like ourselves'; the nightmare is that they have - . - proven beyond doubt what man is capable of.”” Whatever the validity of this position, her...

...RECOVERY OF KANT IN HISTORJCIZING (CONTEXTUALIZING) EVIL Richard Bernstein quoted Arendt's statement that “the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe,”' 2 in order to illuminate the error in thisjudgment. In reading those lines again, however,...

...RECOVERY OF KANT IN HISTORICIZING (CONTEXTUALIZING) EVIL Richard Bernstein quoted Arendt's statement that “the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe,”' 2 in order to illuminate the error in this judgment. In reading those lines again, however,...

...Arendt, in an almost lone cosmopolitan voice, claimed in 1945 after her emigration to the USA that 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe - as death became the fundamental question after the last war'. Who would have thought that...

...Arendt, in an almost lone cosmopolitan voice, claimed in 1945 after her emigration to the USA that 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe - as death became the fundamental question after the last war'. Who would have thought that...

...own propaganda, and muster just a smidgen of gratitude in return. PART H God The Return of Evil T HE PROBLEM OF EVIL will be the fundamental question of postwar intellectual life in Europe,” wrote Hannah Arendt in i¿. She was wrong. To be fair, her comment was not directed at the...