This article presents an expanded version of the lecture delivered by Professor Bogdana Koljević Griffith, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade, Serbia. The lecture was presented at the 10th International Scientific Conference "Creativity as a National Element: The Problem of Good and Evil", held in 2024, at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. The author addresses the pressing issue of rethinking contemporary forms of radical evil, with a particular focus on neo-Nazism. Drawing on the works of Hannah Arendt and Immanuel Kant, the article underscores the idea that 21st-century Western philosophy and politics signify the end of the era of neoliberalism and biopolitics, prompting reflections on an impending shift in historical epochs. This transition is linked to the emergence of a multipolar world, where the creation of new frameworks and paradigms becomes a key objective. The author substantiates the argument that the intellectual legacies of Arendt and Kant have played a crucial role in shaping the "genealogy of the present." This genealogical perspective provides a deeper understanding of human nature and the foundations of «intersubjectivity», which underpin the sense of community. In contrast to the neo-Hobbesian model, which conceptualizes the "social" as a state of perpetual conflict, a new ethico-political paradigm is proposed. Central to this paradigm is the idea of amor mundi ("love of the world"), which offers a pathway to understanding the nature of evil, its radicality, and its banality.
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