The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking /

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Author / Creator:Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck, author.
Imprint:Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Description:xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039116
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ISBN:9781442275959
1442275952
9781442276307
1442276304
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Other form:Online version: Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck, author. Evil of banality Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016 9781442275973

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