The Evil Of Banality: On The Life And Death Importance Of Thinking - 9781442276307

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.

• | Author: Elizabeth Minnich
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Dec 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1442276304
• | ISBN-13: 9781442276307