Hannah Arendt's conceptualizations of evil

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buir.advisorAlexander, James
dc.contributor.authorShkreli, Etrit
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-26T13:02:00Z
dc.date.available2016-04-26T13:02:00Z
dc.date.copyright2016-01
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of thesis.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 197-213).en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph. D.): Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2016.en_US
dc.description.abstractWe owe to Hannah Arendt the notion of “radical evil” and “the banality of evil”. The word “evil” appears with a surprising frequency in Arendt’s work, even though she never wrote a theory of evil and she was not a moralist. Arendt was not a systematic thinker. In this thesis I reconstruct Hannah Arendt’s accounts of evil by presenting them in relation to other fundamental concepts for which Arendt is well-known. My argument is that in order to understand the many nuances of the concept of evil that feature in Hannah Arendt’s body of work we need to look at the relation between evil and freedom. As Arendt’s two notions of freedom (I-can of the new beginning and I-will of the freedom of will) point towards two different conceptualizations of evil (radicality of evil and the banality of evil), it is the reality of evil which serves as the linchpin that helps us see the relation that exists between these two conceptualizations.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Etrit Shkreli.en_US
dc.embargo.release2018-02-29
dc.format.extentvi, 213 leaves.en_US
dc.identifier.itemidB152899
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/28987
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectHannah Arendten_US
dc.subjectEvilen_US
dc.subjectFreedomen_US
dc.subjectActionen_US
dc.subjectJudgmenten_US
dc.subjectMoralityen_US
dc.titleHannah Arendt's conceptualizations of evilen_US
dc.title.alternativeHannah Arendt’in kötülük kavramsallaştırmasıen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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