Abstract
***Testemunho e crimes contra a humanidade a partir da perspectiva de Hannah Arendt***Considerando a emergência do testemunho como uma fonte privilegiada de história e memória posteriormente à Segunda Guerra Mundial, este artigo pretende discutir o papel do testemunho na teoria de Hannah Arendt, considerando, por um lado, suas críticas à abundância de testemunhos no julgamento de Eichmann e, por outro, a importância que a narrativa, a memória e a metáfora adquirem em sua obra. Essa discussão lança uma luzsobre julgamentos históricos envolvendo crimes contra a humanidade.
Highlights
Testimony is a privileged instrument for the production and preservation of memory andin certain cases, it can be said to bethe main tool for buildingshared memories concerning traumatic periodson individual memories
According to Françoise Sironi, from a psychoanalytical perspective “when it is constituted as testimony in a trial for a crime against humanity, the victim’s speech is psychopolitical
Thereby, testimony would introduce a new dimension in transitional justice trials, regarding an understanding of the criminal fact that exceeds its proof
Summary
Testimony is a privileged instrument for the production and preservation of memory andin certain cases, it can be said to bethe main tool for buildingshared memories concerning traumatic periodson individual memories. Arendt didn’t intend to focus exclusively on the perspective of the perpetrators of such hideous crimes, but she criticized the exaggeration in the number of Israeli witnesses, the inability of the defense to question those witnesses, the lack of connection between the testimonies and the criminal facts involving Eichmann, and clearly feared that allowing the immeasurable suffering of the victims to enter the courtroom, through their oral testimonies, would undermine the trial’s capacity to achieve and provide some measure of understanding Thereby, we resume to the importance of testimony in Hannah Arendt’s work, since it is a way to come into contact with examples, as well as to tell experiences, which are other important components of the arendtian reflection on storytelling and understanding
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