Elizabeth K. Minnich

The Evil of Banality

On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781442276307
• ISBN-10: 1442276304
• Artikelnr.: 45376583

Autorenporträt

By Elizabeth K. Minnich

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