What can we forget, and what had we best remember? What is "good" and what is "bad" indifference? Christian Delacampagne proposes a re-evaluation of genocide and of crimes against humanity in the face of an intellectual confusion that leads, according to Hannah Arendt, to a real "banalization of evil." The philosophical and judicial controversies surrounding genocide and crimes against humanity, the tendency towards historical revisionism, polemics against Communism, the ideas of Heidegger and Foucault, the positions towards the violence in Algeria--through all these themes Christian Delacampagne proposes a new intellectual ethic.

Christian Delacampagne is a philosopher and a journalist at Le Monde.