La logique du non-sens

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Franco-American author, Jonathan Littell, published his first literary work entitled LesBienveillantes in 2006. The controversial novel which has a 'fictional nazi officer as itsprotagonist and narrator, who is moreover an intellectual, raises important questionssurrounding the nature and the genesis of Evil. Through the narration of the main character thereader is guided towards a 'logical understanding of the Jewish Question and the FinalSolution. In this dissertation we primarily enquire about the formulation of this logic andfurthermore about the reliability thereof. This study is based on the philosophical conceptionof the logic of absurdity. The analysis of Les Bienveillantes is centered on questions regardingthe reasons for which the genocide of more than 6 million European Jews was possible and forwhich the unspeakable task of wanting to eradicate an entire people was almost achieved. Inthis dissertation the questions surrounding guilt and responsibility are also a point ofdiscussion. For this analysis, the concept of the banality of evil developed by Hannah Arendtis the point of departure.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University