The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking / Elizabeth K. Minnich.
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....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishering Group, Inc.,
[2017]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442275973 1442275979 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2017) |