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The Evil of Banality
On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Taschenbuch von Elizabeth K. Minnich
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Minnich received her doctorate from the New School under the direction of Hannah Arendt. Following twenty-five years as a Core Professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Union Institute, she now divides her time between Charlotte, NC, where she is professor of moral philosophy at Queens University, and Washington, DC, where she is a Senior Scholar at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is the author of Transforming Knowledge (Temple University Press, 1990, 2005) and co-author of The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2005).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction:What Were They Thinking?
PART I: EVIL-THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
Chapter 1: Truth and Fiction: Camus' The Plague
Chapter 2: Thinking about Not-Thinkingh
Chapter 3: Changing Minds
Chapter 4: Escaping Explanations, Excuses
Chapter 5: Meaning, Truth, Rationality, Knowledge, and Thinking
Chapter 6: Romanticizing Evil
Chapter 7: Intensive Evil, Extensive Evil
Chapter 8: The Ordinary for Good and Ill
PART II: GOODNESS: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Chapter 9: Phillip Hallie: It Takes a Village
Chapter 10: Preparing for Extensive Goodness?
Chapter 11: Looking for Good Beyond the Village
Chapter 12: The Banality of Goodness?
PART III: FERTILE GROUNDS FOR EXTENSIVE EVIL
Chapter 13: Seeding Prepared Ground
Chapter 14: Large-Scale Enclosures: Meaning Systems
Chapter 15: Physical Enclosures of Bodies, Minds
Chapter 16: Laying out the Strands
Afterword: Teaching Thinking
Notes
Bibliography: Sources and Resources
Index
Author Biography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781442276307
ISBN-10: 1442276304
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Minnich, Elizabeth K.
Hersteller: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth K. Minnich
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2016
Gewicht: 0,424 kg
Artikel-ID: 103597526
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Minnich received her doctorate from the New School under the direction of Hannah Arendt. Following twenty-five years as a Core Professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Union Institute, she now divides her time between Charlotte, NC, where she is professor of moral philosophy at Queens University, and Washington, DC, where she is a Senior Scholar at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is the author of Transforming Knowledge (Temple University Press, 1990, 2005) and co-author of The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2005).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction:What Were They Thinking?
PART I: EVIL-THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
Chapter 1: Truth and Fiction: Camus' The Plague
Chapter 2: Thinking about Not-Thinkingh
Chapter 3: Changing Minds
Chapter 4: Escaping Explanations, Excuses
Chapter 5: Meaning, Truth, Rationality, Knowledge, and Thinking
Chapter 6: Romanticizing Evil
Chapter 7: Intensive Evil, Extensive Evil
Chapter 8: The Ordinary for Good and Ill
PART II: GOODNESS: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Chapter 9: Phillip Hallie: It Takes a Village
Chapter 10: Preparing for Extensive Goodness?
Chapter 11: Looking for Good Beyond the Village
Chapter 12: The Banality of Goodness?
PART III: FERTILE GROUNDS FOR EXTENSIVE EVIL
Chapter 13: Seeding Prepared Ground
Chapter 14: Large-Scale Enclosures: Meaning Systems
Chapter 15: Physical Enclosures of Bodies, Minds
Chapter 16: Laying out the Strands
Afterword: Teaching Thinking
Notes
Bibliography: Sources and Resources
Index
Author Biography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781442276307
ISBN-10: 1442276304
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Minnich, Elizabeth K.
Hersteller: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth K. Minnich
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2016
Gewicht: 0,424 kg
Artikel-ID: 103597526
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