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Reifer, Jessica. "Hannah Arendt and Joseph Conrad: Memory, History and the Development of Totalitarian Evil in the Belgian Congo1" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209290_index.html>

Reifer, J. , 2007-08-30 "Hannah Arendt and Joseph Conrad: Memory, History and the Development of Totalitarian Evil in the Belgian Congo1" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209290_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper focuses on a historical memory, namely the role of nineteenth century imperialism on the emergence and development of totalitarian evil and draws heavily on the works of the late political theorist, Hannah Arendt and the novelist, Joseph Conrad. It is my contention that Conrad’s writing deeply affected Arendt’s analysis of imperialism as an element or origin of totalitarianism, and that the evil that occurred under imperialism and totalitarianism show striking similarities. The aim of my paper is to analyze Arendt’s treatment of both radical and banal evil and to show that Arendt hinted at her famous and controversial subtitle, the banality of evil, before she wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem. The emphasis of this study will be on the “Imperialism” section of The Origins of Totalitarianism where Arendt uses Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness to account for the adventurers of the imperialist era. Drawing on Conrad’s writings, I trace two distinct Arendtian thought trains of evil back to the imperialist era, one radical and one banal. The first train of thought focuses on Arendt’s notion of radical evil and emerges from Conrad’s idea of “the phantom world of the dark continent.” “The phantom world of the dark continent” foreshadows the development of Arendtian radical evil in the “fictitious world” of totalitarianism, specifically the nightmarish world of the concentration and extermination camps where gruesome atrocities are committed that lack humanly comprehensible motives. The second train of thought focuses on the banality of evil, and emerges from Joseph Conrad’s notion of “hollowness”. It is in Conrad’s notion of hollowness that we find something akin to Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil. The description of the manager, first class agent, and Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness all illustrate this hollow quality. It is my contention that the hollowness of the characters in Heart of Darkness coupled with the rise of modern bureaucracy serves as a precursor to the manifest shallowness and profound thoughtlessness of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann.

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