HANNAH ARENDT AND THE ORDINARY OF EVIL: AN EVALUATION ABOUT THE READER AND HANNAH ARENDT MOVIES

Abstract

Fascism, an extraordinary regime that emerged in the period between the two world wars, not only influenced its own period, but still continues to be discussed and talked about today. Fascism, which emerged in Nazi Germany after Hitler came to power, saw groups such as Jews, gypsies and mental patients as a threat to Germany. "Concentration camps" were built in and around Germany to eliminate these groups. Jews, gypsies and mentally ill people were forced to work in these camps under inhumane conditions. Afterwards, these people were killed in the gas chambers under the name of "shower". Hannah Arendt, who is a Jew herself and lived at the time of the events, evaluated this "shame of humanity" within the framework of "totalitarianism, the banality of evil and violence". Hannah Arendt's views have led to much research on the subject. In this study, the banality of evil, totalitarianism and violence phenomena discussed by Hannah Arendt in her own period and later revealed by Fatmagül Berktay while reinterpreting Arendt in today's Turkey were evaluated within the scope of fascism, an extraordinary regime in the interwar period. In this context, all these phenomena were examined within the scope of Hannah Arendt and The Reader films.