Facing the Evil Maria Fernanda Palma The Banality of Evil or the Exceptionality of Good in Totalitarian Societies Paulo Otero The Eichmann Trial: Evil as a Reaction Against Evil? Hannah Arendt, the Legal and the Political Alexandre Franco de Sá From the Total State to Totalitarianism: Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt Massimo La Torre Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Law: Against the Tradition Rui Guerra da Fonseca Eichmann in Jerusalem: Between the Legal and the Political in Hannah Arendt's Thought Eichmann in Jerusalem and Hannah Arendt's Oeuvre António Araújo Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann: Of Radical Evil and Its Banality Luís Pereira Coutinho The Banality of Evil as Absence of Law Miguel Nogueira de Brito When Thinking Is Acting: The Concept of the Banality of Evil as a Key to Hannah Arendt's Political Thought The Eichmann Trial Paulo de Sousa Mendes Judging Eichmann to Render Justice Kai Ambos Some Considerations on the Eichmann Case Miguel Galvão Teles 50 Years On Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Specific Mode of Criminal Law Retroactivity Reflections Starting from Eichmann in Jerusalem Augusto Silva Dias The Milgram Experiment and Criminal Liability: An Essay on the Banality of Evil Cristina García Pascual Can Absolute Evil Be Brought to Justice? Contemporary Experiences of Transitional Justice Pablo Galain Palermo and Álvaro Garreaud Truth Commissions and the Reconstruction of the Past in the Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone: Concerning the Limitations for Understanding Evil List of Contributors
This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a "grotesque, unflinching" portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly). “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero. In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.
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