%0 Journal Article
%T Some thoughts on the banality of evil, inspired by a conversation with Jean-Paul Brodeur
%A Samuel Tanner
%J Champ P¨¦nal
%D 2012
%I Champ p¨¦nal
%R 10.4000/champpenal.8347
%X Si la notori¨¦t¨¦ de Jean-Paul Brodeur est en grande partie due ¨¤ ses recherches sur la police, il est un autre domaine, plus m¨¦connu du grand public, qui le passionnait et le fascinait, ¨¤ savoir les formes extr¨ºmes de violence, dont le g¨¦nocide et le crime contre l¡¯humanit¨¦. Dans le cadre de cet article, je prolonge un dialogue que nous avions entam¨¦ avec Jean-Paul ¨¤ propos du concept de banalit¨¦ du mal, d¨¦velopp¨¦ par Hannah Arendt. En particulier et ¨¤ partir des contextes yougoslave et rwandais, je propose une extension de cette notion appliqu¨¦e non pas tant ici aux fonctionnaires et bureaucrates, tels qu¡¯ils constituaient le centre d¡¯attention de la philosophie, alors concentr¨¦e sur l¡¯Holocauste, mais bien plut t des ex¨¦cuteurs de terrain. Cette r¨¦flexion pr¨¦liminaire r¨¦v¨¨le que la notion de banalit¨¦ du mal peut ¨ºtre d¨¦clin¨¦e en quatre formes caract¨¦risant la participation des ex¨¦cuteurs ; soit la banalit¨¦ de la similitude, de la familiarit¨¦, de l¡¯id¨¦e et enfin de r¨¦p¨¦tition. If Jean-Paul Brodeur¡¯s notoriety was mostly due to his work on police, his fascination for another field, namely extreme forms of violence like genocide and crimes against humanity, remained less known form the public. This article is an extension of a dialogue Jean-Paul and I had on the concept of banality of evil, such as developed by Hannah Arendt. In particular, and based on the Yugoslav and Rwandan contexts, I suggest an expansion of the concept¡¯s application, yet this time not so much on civil servants and bureaucrats, who constituted Arendt¡¯s center of interest while focusing on the Holocaust, but rather on field executioners. This preliminary insight reveals that the notion of banality of evil might be disaggregated into four subcategories that characterize executioners¡¯ participation in mass violence, namely a banality of similitude, of familiarity, of idea and of repetition.
%K banality of evil
%K crimes against humanity
%K former Yugoslavia
%K genocide
%K Hannah Arendt
%K Rwanda
%K g¨¦nocide
%K Rwanda
%K Jean-Paul Brodeur
%K banalit¨¦ du mal
%K crime contre l¡¯humanit¨¦
%K ex-Yougoslavie
%K Hannah Arendt
%U http://champpenal.revues.org/8347