Preface; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Maria Fernanda Palma: The Banality of Evil or the Exceptionality of Good in Totalitarian Societies; I.; II.; III.; IV.; Paulo Otero: The Eichmann Trial: Evil as a Reaction Against Evil?; I.; II.; III.; Alexandre Franco de Sá: From the Total State to Totalitarianism: Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt; Massimo La Torre: Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Law. Against the Tradition; I.; II.; III.; IV.; Rui Guerra da Fonseca: Eichmann in Jerusalem: Between the Legal and the Political in Hannah Arendt's Thought; Introduction; I.; II.; III.; Conclusion António Araújo: Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann: Of Radical Evil and Its BanalityLuís Pereira Coutinho: The Banality of Evil as Absence of Law; Introduction; I. The Banality of Evil as Absence of Meaning; II. Absence of Meaning as Absence of Law; Miguel Nogueira de Brito: When Thinking Is Acting: The Concept of the Banality of Evil as a Key to Hannah Arendt's Political Thought; Introduction: Reserve Police Battalion 101; I. The Banality of Evil: From the Words to the Idea; II. A Secular Conception of Evil?; III. The Idea of the Banality of Evil in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy 1. Arendt's Cosmopolitanism2. Thinking and the Political Life; 3. Obedience and Consent; 4. Truth in Political Thought; Paulo de Sousa Mendes: Judging Eichmann to Render Justice; Introduction; I. Searching for Justice; II. Staging a Show Trial; III. The Prosecution Strategy; IV. The Jerusalem Court's Judgment; V. Rendering Justice; VI. Arendt's Thoughts on the Banality of Evil; Conclusion; Kai Ambos: Some Considerations on the Eichmann Case; Introduction; I. Outsiders vs. Insiders and the Fair Trial; II. The Type of Liability Applied to Eichmann: Principal, Accomplice or Something Else? Miguel Galvão Teles: 50 Years On Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Specific Mode of Criminal Law RetroactivityIntroduction; I. The Question of Retroactivity of the Incriminations from the Standpoint of International Law at the Time; II. Ethico-Legal Consideration of the Incriminations: Retroactivity Regarding Facts that Came to be Characterised, lato sensu, as Crimes Against Humanity; Augusto Silva Dias: The Milgram Experiment and Criminal Liability: An Essay on the Banality of Evil; I. The Milgram Experiment: Results and Impact II. The Banality of Evil and Crimes Committed in Obedience to Authority: Organized Power ApparatusCristina García Pascual: Can Absolute Evil Be Brought to Justice?; Introduction; I. What Is Absolute Evil?; 1. Conceptualisation; 2. An Evil Without Depth; II. Coping with Absolute Evil; 1. Political Problems; 2. Moral Problems; 3. Legal Problems; An Uncertain Conclusion; Pablo Galain Palermo and Álvaro Garreaud: Truth Commissions and the Reconstruction of the Past in the Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone: Concerning the Limitations for Understanding Evil; Introduction I. From Radicality to the Banality of Evil |