The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking /
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Author / Creator: | Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck, author. |
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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 |
ISBN: | 9781442275959 1442275952 9781442276307 1442276304 |
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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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