Arendt, Améry, and the Phenomenology of Evil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8410100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidra Shahid (0000-0002-3582-0733, Amsterdam University College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 469-487 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071773.2022.2101134 |
| OpenAlex | W4286500884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Contemporary accounts of evil attempt to identify features or properties that transform an act of wrongdoing into an act of evil. What is missing from the discussion, however, is a phenomenology of evil that engages with the standpoint of the subject that undergoes evil. This paper discusses basic themes for a phenomenology of evil through a critical comparison between Hannah Arendt and Jean Améry’s respective conceptions of evil. Central for this discussion is a claim Arendt and Améry share: evil destroys subjectivity and undermines trust in the world. Furthermore, both argue that the perpetrators of evil inhabit a distorted moral framework. They differ, however, insofar as Améry foregrounds the subject that undergoes evil, a standpoint that remains tacit in Arendt’s account. Recounting his torture by the Gestapo, Améry reveals how embodied subjects experiences evil and how it is in light of these experiences that perpetrators of evil should be understood
Epistemology · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Psychoanalysis · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
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Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge
The Human Condition
Is radical evil banal? Is banal evil radical
Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy
I. Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Arendt's Thought
Between banality and radicality
A Phenomenology of Home
Action, Judgment, and Imagination in Hannah Arendt's Thought
Genealogies of Total Domination
Fanon and Améry
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |