Adorno and Arendt: Evil, Modernity and the Underside of Theodicy
The point of departure for this article is a comparative study of Adorno and Arendt on the question of evil and modernity. To be precise, I observe how Adorno and Arendt present us with very different ways of understanding radical evil as an expression of the modern project of acceleration. This div...
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Sophia
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-224 |
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philosophy of history
B Radical evil B Memory B Theodicy B Adorno B Arendt |
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