Publication

2016-12-14 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781442275959
  • Open LibraryOL27704104M

Classifications

  • LCCB808.7.M56 2016
  • LCCB808.7 .M56 2017

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.

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Other Editions

  • The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of ThinkingHardcoverRowman & Littlefield Publishers2016-12-14

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