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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elizabeth Minnich received her doctorate from the New School under the direction of Hannah Arendt. Following twenty-five years as a Core Professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Union Institute, she now divides her time between Charlotte, NC, where she is professor of moral philosophy at Queens University, and Washington, DC, where she is a Senior Scholar at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is the author of Transforming Knowledge (Temple University Press, 1990, 2005) and co-author of The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2005).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction:What Were They Thinking? PART I: EVIL-THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Chapter 1: Truth and Fiction: Camus' The Plague Chapter 2: Thinking about Not-Thinkingh Chapter 3: Changing Minds Chapter 4: Escaping Explanations, Excuses Chapter 5: Meaning, Truth, Rationality, Knowledge, and Thinking Chapter 6: Romanticizing Evil Chapter 7: Intensive Evil, Extensive Evil Chapter 8: The Ordinary for Good and Ill PART II: GOODNESS: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Chapter 9: Phillip Hallie: It Takes a Village Chapter 10: Preparing for Extensive Goodness? Chapter 11: Looking for Good Beyond the Village Chapter 12: The Banality of Goodness? PART III: FERTILE GROUNDS FOR EXTENSIVE EVIL Chapter 13: Seeding Prepared Ground Chapter 14: Large-Scale Enclosures: Meaning Systems Chapter 15: Physical Enclosures of Bodies, Minds Chapter 16: Laying out the Strands Afterword: Teaching Thinking Notes Bibliography: Sources and Resources Index Author Biography
Acknowledgments Introduction:What Were They Thinking? PART I: EVIL-THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Chapter 1: Truth and Fiction: Camus' The Plague Chapter 2: Thinking about Not-Thinkingh Chapter 3: Changing Minds Chapter 4: Escaping Explanations, Excuses Chapter 5: Meaning, Truth, Rationality, Knowledge, and Thinking Chapter 6: Romanticizing Evil Chapter 7: Intensive Evil, Extensive Evil Chapter 8: The Ordinary for Good and Ill PART II: GOODNESS: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Chapter 9: Phillip Hallie: It Takes a Village Chapter 10: Preparing for Extensive Goodness? Chapter 11: Looking for Good Beyond the Village Chapter 12: The Banality of Goodness? PART III: FERTILE GROUNDS FOR EXTENSIVE EVIL Chapter 13: Seeding Prepared Ground Chapter 14: Large-Scale Enclosures: Meaning Systems Chapter 15: Physical Enclosures of Bodies, Minds Chapter 16: Laying out the Strands Afterword: Teaching Thinking Notes Bibliography: Sources and Resources Index Author Biography
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