Razumjeti nepojmljivo? O (ne)mogućnosti hermeneutičkog promišljanja radikalnog zločina
Understand the unfathomable? On the (im)possibility of hermeneutical consideration of a radical crime

Author(s): Željko Radinković
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: hermeneutical consideration; radical crime; Hannah Arendt; radical evil
Summary/Abstract: Trying to define radical evil, Hannah Arendt wrote the following in 1950: "Radical evil is that which should not have happened, that is, that which cannot be reconciled, which must not be accepted as fate under any conditions, and which must also not be passed over in silence. It is that which cannot be taken responsibility for, because its consequences are unfathomable and because there is no appropriate punishment for them. It does not it means that every evil must be punished, but if we want to reconcile and turn away from it, it must be punishable" (Arendt 2002: 7).

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