Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 243 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Ethics
2. Banality (Philosophy)
3. Thought and thinking

Call number

1. JFE 17-2273

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck, author.

Title

1. The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking / Elizabeth K. Minnich.

Publisher

1. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck, author. Evil of banality Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016 9781442275973

LCCN

1. 2016044739

ISBN

1. 9781442275959 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 1442275952 hardcover alkaline paper
3. 9781442276307 paperback alkaline paper
4. 1442276304 paperback alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 17-2273