Mass Atrocity Ordinary Evil And Hannah Arendt

Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300087536

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Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt by Mark Osiel Pdf

Is it possible that the soldiers of mass atrocities--Adolph Eichmann in Nazi Germany and Alfredo Astiz in Argentina's Dirty War, for example--act under conditions that prevent them from recognizing their crimes? In the aftermath of catastrophic, state-sponsored mass murder, how are criminal courts to respond to those who either gave or carried out the military orders that seem unequivocally criminal? This important book addresses Hannah Arendt's controversial argument that perpetrators of mass crimes are completely unaware of their wrongdoing, and therefore existing criminal laws do not adequately address these defendants. Mark Osiel applies Arendt's ideas about the kind of people who implement bureaucratized large-scale atrocities to Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s, and he also delves into the social conditions that could elicit such reprehensible conduct. He focuses on Argentine navy captain Astiz, who led one of the most notorious abduction squads, to discover how he and other junior officers could justify the murders of more than ten thousand suspected "subversives." Osiel concludes that legal stipulations labeling certain deeds as manifestly illegal are indefensible. He calls for a significant change in the laws of war to preserve both justice and the possibility of dialogue between factions in such sharply divided societies as Argentina. Osiel's proposals have profound implications for future prosecutions of Pinochet's lieutenants, Milosevic's henchmen, the willing executioners of Rwanda and East Timor, and other perpetrators of state-endorsed murder and torture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : 0300160518

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Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351506670

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Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law by Michael Curtis Pdf

Trials of those responsible for large-scale state brutality have captured public imagination in several countries. Prosecutors and judges in such cases, says Osiel, rightly aim to shape collective memory. They can do so hi ways successful as public spectacle and consistent with liberal legality. In defending this interpretation, he examines the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials, the Eicnmann prosecution, and more recent trials in Argentina and France. Such trials can never summon up a "collective conscience" of moral principles shared by all, he argues. But they can nonetheless contribute to a little-noticed kind of social solidarity. To this end, writes Osiel, we should pay closer attention to the way an experience of administrative massacre is framed within the conventions of competing theatrical genres. Defense counsel will tell the story as a tragedy, while prosecutors will present it as a morality play. The judicial task at such moments is to employ the law to recast the courtroom drama in terms of a "theater of ideas," which engages large questions of collective memory and even national identity. Osiel asserts that principles of liberal morality can be most effectively inculcated in a society traumatized by fratricide when proceedings are conducted in this fashion. The approach Osiel advocates requires courts to confront questions of historical interpretation and moral pedagogy generally regarded as beyond their professional competence. It also raises objections that defendants' rights will be sacrificed, historical understanding distorted, and that the law cannot willfully influence collective memory, at least not when lawyers acknowledge this aim. Osiel responds to all these objections, and others. Lawyers, judges, sociologists, historians, and political theorists will find this a compelling contribution to debates on the meaning and consequences of genocide.

Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412828171

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Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law by Mark Osiel Pdf

To this end, writes Osiel, we should pay closer attention to the way an experience of administrative massacre is framed within the conventions of competing theatrical genres. Defense counsel will tell the story as a tragedy, while prosecutors will present it as a morality play. The judicial task at such moments is to employ the law to recast the courtroom drama in terms of a "theater of ideas," which engages large questions of collective memory and even national identity. Osiel asserts that principles of liberal morality can be most effectively inculcated in a society traumatized by fratricide when proceedings are conducted in this fashion.

Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521861854

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Making Sense of Mass Atrocity by Mark Osiel Pdf

This book trenchantly diagnoses the law's limits in making sense of mass atrocity.

Author : Valerie Hartouni
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814769768

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Visualizing Atrocity by Valerie Hartouni Pdf

Taking Hannah Arendt's account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure, this book reassesses the myths that shape our understanding of the Nazi genocide as well as totalitarianism's broader features. These myths are tied to the atrocity imagery that emerged with the liberation of the concentration camps and played an evidentiary role in the post-war trials of perpetrators. At the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal, particular practices of looking were first established, and later institutionalized through Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem as part of the fabric of historical fact. These ways of seeing have come to constitute a visual rhetoric that drives contemporary mythmaking about how we know genocide and what is permitted to count as such. In contrast, Arendt's claims about the "banality of evil" work to disrupt this visual rhetoric.

Author : Thomas Brudholm,Johannes Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107127739

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Emotions and Mass Atrocity by Thomas Brudholm,Johannes Lang Pdf

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Author : Michael Hardiman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000604115

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The Path to Mass Evil by Michael Hardiman Pdf

On the Southern border of the United States in 2018, the decision was made to implement a separation policy among refugees and migrant families arriving at the border – and so a group of government employees left their homes, bidding farewell to their families as they went to work, and began to separate hundreds of children from their families, forcefully taking them to holding centres. Developing Hannah Arendt’s analysis of the banality of evil, The Path to Mass Evil demonstrates how the most educated, sophisticated and advanced societies in human history have the potential to descend into profound inhumanity and in the extreme can turn into enormous killing machines, implementing mass murder on a vast scale. Suitable for undergraduates and graduates in philosophy, sociology, psychology and religion, Michael Hardiman reveals how traditional understandings of morality fail to grasp how ordinary citizens become collaborators and engage in a range of levels of evildoing. He also highlights the necessity of confronting this evil in the increasingly divided and antagonistic world in which we find ourselves today.

Author : Richard J. Golsan,Sarah M. Misemer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501464

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The Trial That Never Ends by Richard J. Golsan,Sarah M. Misemer Pdf

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Arendt in Jerusalem: The Eichmann Trial, the Banality of Evil, and the Meaning of Justice Fifty Years On -- 1 Judging the Past: The Eichmann Trial -- 2 Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the "Rule of Narrative" -- 3 Banality, Again -- 4 Eichmann on the Stand: Self-Recognition and the Problem of Truth -- 5 Arendt's Conservatism and the Eichmann Judgment -- 6 Eichmann's Victims, Holocaust Historiography, and Victim Testimony -- 7 Truth and Judgment in Arendt's Writing -- 8 Arendt, German Law, and the Crime of Atrocity -- 9 Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann's or Hannah Arendt's? The Eichmann Controversy Revisited -- Contributors -- Index

Author : Peter Baehr,Philip Walsh
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783081837

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The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt by Peter Baehr,Philip Walsh Pdf

The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt’s most salient arguments and major works – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt’s intellectual relationships with Max Weber, Karl Mannheim and other key social scientists. Although written principally for students new to Arendt’s work, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt also engages the most avid Arendt scholar.

Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521513517

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The End of Reciprocity by Mark Osiel Pdf

This book examines reciprocity between asymmetrical sides in war and conflict.

Author : Maria Pia Lara
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231511667

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Narrating Evil by Maria Pia Lara Pdf

Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our consciousness and lead to a kind of examination and dialogue that shape notions of morality. A powerful description of a crime can act as a filter, helping us to draw conclusions about what constitutes a moral wrong, and public debates over these narratives allow us to construct a more accurate picture of historical truth, leading to a better understanding of why such actions are possible. In building her argument, Lara considers Greek tragedies, Shakespeare's depictions of evil, Joseph Conrad's literary metaphors, and movies that portray human cruelty. Turning to such philosophers and writers as Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, and Ariel Dorfman, Lara defines a reflexive relationship between an event, the narrative of the event, and the public reception of the narrative, and she proves that the stories of perpetrators and sufferers are always intertwined. The process of disclosure, debate, and the public fashioning of collective judgment are vital methods through which we make sense not only of new forms of cruelty but of past crimes as well. Narrating Evil describes the steps of this process and why they are a crucial part of our attempt to build a different, more just world.

Author : Patrick Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134057924

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Political Evil in a Global Age by Patrick Hayden Pdf

Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and debates surrounding globalization. In recent years the work of Arendt has gathered increasing interest from scholars in the field of international political theory because of its potential relevance for understanding international affairs. Focusing on the central theme of evil in Arendt’s work, this book weaves together elements of Arendt’s theory in order to engage with four major problems connected with contemporary globalization: genocide and crimes against humanity; global poverty and radical economic inequality; global refugees, displaced persons, and the ‘stateless’; and the destructive domination of the public realm by predatory neoliberal economic globalization. Hayden shows that a key constellation of her concepts—the right to have rights, superfluousness, thoughtlessness, plurality, freedom, and power—can help us to understand and address some of the central problems involving political evil in our global age. In doing so, this book takes Arendtian scholarship and international political theory into provocative new directions. Political Evil in a Global Age will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of politics, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies.

Author : Marco Goldoni,Chris McCorkindale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847319319

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Hannah Arendt and the Law by Marco Goldoni,Chris McCorkindale Pdf

This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of her work, Arendt nonetheless had interesting insights into Greek and Roman concepts of law, human rights, constitutional design, legislation, sovereignty, international tribunals, judicial review and much more. This book retrieves these aspects of her legal philosophy for the attention of both Arendt scholars and lawyers alike. The book brings together lawyers as well as Arendt scholars drawn from a range of disciplines (philosophy, political science, international relations), who have engaged in an internal debate the dynamism of which is captured in print. Following the editors' introduction, the book is split into four Parts: Part I explores the concept of law in Arendt's thought; Part II explores legal aspects of Arendt's constitutional thought: first locating Arendt in the wider tradition of republican constitutionalism, before turning attention to the role of courts and the role of parliament in her constitutional design. In Part III Arendt's thought on international law is explored from a variety of perspectives, covering international institutions and international criminal law, as well as the theoretical foundations of international law. Part IV debates the foundations, content and meaning of Arendt's famous and influential claim that the 'right to have rights' is the one true human right.

Author : Sanford Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195306460

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Torture by Sanford Levinson Pdf

This collection of essays will address some of the most controversial issues surrounding torture: how it is used by governments, legal definitions of torture, the theological implications of torturing, torture in declared states of emergency and why it should be prohibited.