Abstract: Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ has not only radically overturned the traditional thoughts about ‘radical evil’, but also pushed our thinking even deeper into the maze of this turbulent age. However, since her conception of “judgement” failed to respond to this tough problem, we have to turn to Levinas for further inspiration, especially his innovative argument about temporality. The temporal sequence in which temporality is connected to the totally alien future and the remnant scars of trauma provides both a premise for the philosophical principle of absolute separation and a real starting point for the perspective of radial evil. Precisely on this point, a strong resonance could be felt between Levinas and the recent rather radical version of posthumanism.

Key words: radical evil, Arendt, banality of evil, Levinas, posthumanism, speculative realism, Anthropocene, disconnection theme