The articulation between banality of evil and radicalising it, issued from the partly arguable lecture of Kant by Hannah Arendt, is a good approach to totalitarianism, because it shows the co-responsibility of everybody facing evil in politics. Some other texts by Arendt lead to another aspect of the relationship between annihilation and politics. Total war non only destroys what had been produced but politics itself while supposing other people's presence and a plurality of points of view, the relation all through the roman lex or the "unceasing talking" of the polis. Facing the collective identities which believe the possibility of ignoring otherness, political sympathy puts identity aside and assumes a founding plurality .L'articulation ...