The Shadow of Totalitarianism: Action, Judgment, and Evil in Politics

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Totalitarianism and the Problem of Evil in Politics
	The Problem: A “New” Form of Evil
	Uncertainty
	The Nature of Totalitarian Crimes
	Subjective Evil and Bureaucratization
	Moral Foundations
	A Critical Political Theory of Evil
	Structure and Method
Part 1: Action
	Chapter 1 Arendt’s Reassessment of Responsibility
		Radical Evil and the Destruction of Responsibility
		Beginning, Disclosure, Distinctness
		Forgiveness and the Burden of Unpredictability
		Evil and Responsibility after Eichmann
		Responsibility between Thinking and Action
		Conclusion
	Chapter 2 Kant on the Deceptiveness of Evil
		Arendt, Eichmann, Kant
		Freedom and the Ground of Imputability
		The Choice of Evil
		Deception
		From Radical Evil to the Banality of Evil
		Conclusion
Part 2: Judgment
	Chapter 3 Kant on the Sublime and the Judgment of Action
		Arendt’s Turn to Kant’s Third Critique
		Judgment between the Empirical and the Intelligible
		A Sublime Judgment
		A Supersensible Power
		Between Enthusiasm and Sublimity
		Conclusion
	Chapter 4 Lyotard on Good and Evil in Postmodernity
		The Problem of Legitimacy and the Turn to Kant
		Critical, Political, and Reflective Judgment
		The Sublime and the Differend
		Universality as a Sublime Sign
		Conclusion
	Conclusion: Extreme Evil as a Response to Political Uncertainty
		The Eichmann Problem and Responsibility
		Ideological Extremism
		Uncertainty and Totalitarianism
		Political and Moral Judgments
		The Politics of the Lesser Evil
Notes
Bibliography
Index