Totalitarianism and justice: Hannah Arendt's and Judith N. Shklar’s political reflections in historical and theoretical perspective

摘要: AbstractWe locate Arendt’s and Shklar’s writings within what Katznelson has identified as an attempt to create a new language for politics after the cataclysm of twentieth century, Greif called ‘maieutic’ discourse ‘re-enlightenment’ in ‘age crisis man’. More specifically, we compare contrast two related, but many ways also differing, thinking about totalitarianism its legal repercussions. To this end, examine sets studies: The origins Eichmann Jerusalem: A report on banality evil After utopia: decline political faith Legalism: An essay law, morals, politics. While utopia discussed totalitarian ideology consequences modern thought, Legalism dealt with question whether how justice is possible extreme experience totalitarianism. We argue that maieutic impuls...