The Soundscape of Darkness

Cavarero, Adriana

doi:10.1353/cnd.2016.0015

Conradiana

2016

DOI: 10.1353/cnd.2016.0015

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The Soundscape of Darkness

Adriana Cavarero¹

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“…. .” For diagnostics of mimetic pathologies in Heart of Darkness that prefigure Nazi horrors, see Lawtoo (2010) and Cavarero (2016).…”

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The Case of Eichmann Restaged : Arendt, Evil, and the Complexity of Mimesis

Lawtoo

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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This essay reframes Hannah Arendt’s evaluation of the “banality of evil” in light of Eichmann’s mimetic psychology, which Arendt intuited but did not fully articulate. Rather than considering the banality of evil as symptomatic of Eichmann’s “inability to think,” the essay foregrounds the affective, contagious, and, in this sense, mimetic tendencies at play in Eichmann’s personality (from Latin, persona, theatrical mask). This move is instrumental to articulate a middle path between Arendt’s theoretical diagnostic of Eichmann as “terrifyingly normal” and Bettina Stangneth’s recent historical account of Eichmann as a “fanatical National Socialist.” My wager is that the ancient problematic of mimēsis (from Greek, mimos, mime) casts a new and original light on the psychic foundations of a type of evil that is as relevant to understand the psychology of fascism in the past century as its rising shadow in the present century.

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“…. .” For diagnostics of mimetic pathologies in Heart of Darkness that prefigure Nazi horrors, see Lawtoo (2010) and Cavarero (2016).…”

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The Case of Eichmann Restaged : Arendt, Evil, and the Complexity of Mimesis

Lawtoo

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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Inclining Mimesis: Continuing the Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero

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Cavarero

2023

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The Soundscape of Darkness

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The Case of Eichmann Restaged : Arendt, Evil, and the Complexity of Mimesis

The Case of Eichmann Restaged : Arendt, Evil, and the Complexity of Mimesis

Inclining Mimesis: Continuing the Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero

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