The Evil of Banality
Subtitle: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: Dec 14, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781442275959
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking