The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking / Elizabeth K. Minnich.
2017
170 M665e 2017
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Title
The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking / Elizabeth K. Minnich.
ISBN
9781442275959 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1442275952 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781442276307 (paperback alkaline paper)
1442276304 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781442275973
1442275952 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781442276307 (paperback alkaline paper)
1442276304 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781442275973
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Language
English
Description
xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
170 M665e 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)953708628
(OCoLC)953708628
(OCoLC)953708628
Summary
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, thoughtless conventionality, ambition, greed, status-seeking enable the evil of banality.
Note
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, thoughtless conventionality, ambition, greed, status-seeking enable the evil of banality.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part 1. Thinking the unthinkable. Truth and fiction : Camus' The plague ; Thinking about not-thinking ; Changing minds ; Escaping explanations, excuses ; Meaning, truth, rationality, knowledge, thinking ; Romanticizing evil ; Intensive evil, extensive evil ; The ordinary for good and ill
Part 2. Goodness : what is to be done? Philip Hallie : it takes a village ; Preparing for extensive goodness ; Looking for good beyond the village ; The banality of goodness?
Part 3. Fertile grounds for extensive evil. Seeding prepared ground ; Large-scale enclosures : meaning systems ; Physical enclosures of bodies, minds ; Laying out the strands.
Part 2. Goodness : what is to be done? Philip Hallie : it takes a village ; Preparing for extensive goodness ; Looking for good beyond the village ; The banality of goodness?
Part 3. Fertile grounds for extensive evil. Seeding prepared ground ; Large-scale enclosures : meaning systems ; Physical enclosures of bodies, minds ; Laying out the strands.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck. Evil of banality. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016
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