Le mal en proces. Eichmann et les theodicees modernes
In: Critique internationale, Band 4, Heft 61, S. 185-189
ISSN: 1777-554X
The 50th anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem was the occasion of numerous publications and events, including interest, for the most significant was, firstly, to measure the displacement, since 1961, the debates surrounding Eichmann case and the evolution of questions based on the renewal of the historiography on Nazism as a company genocidal, secondly, to return to the supposed interpretation summarize the moral of the story since then , namely the 'banality of evil' according to Hannah Arendt. In Evil in trial work drawn from his work empowerment, Isabelle Delpla offers a philosophical reading of 'moral unthinkable' from a critical review of the Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt published in 1963. It therefore considers the One of the central moral issues raised by the mass crimes committed in the twentieth century - how to think that this extreme evil out of theodicies? - Which leads him to examine the 'trial form' as the space time comes to prepare the 'matrix of our moral arguments about the unthinkable moral' and to place the accused at the heart (p. 193) its analyzing device. Adapted from the source document.