The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking

by Elizabeth Minnich

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442275952
• ISBN13: 9781442275959
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"