The Evil of Banality On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking |
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| Author:
| Minnich, Elizabeth K. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4422-7597-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Asking, How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators and those who resist extensive evils--genocide, human trafficking, endemic sexualized violations of females, economic exploitation--the book delves into historic, contemporary, national, and international examples. The author, a moral philosopher, draws also on literature, psychology, economics, journalism, pop culture. Reversing Arendt's banality of evil, she finds that mind-deadening banality,...
More DescriptionAsking, How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators and those who resist extensive evils--genocide, human trafficking, endemic sexualized violations of females, economic exploitation--the book delves into historic, contemporary, national, and international examples. The author, a moral philosopher, draws also on literature, psychology, economics, journalism, pop culture. Reversing Arendt's banality of evil, she finds that mind-deadening banality, thoughtless conventionality, ambition, greed, status-seeking enable the evil of banality.