The Evil of Banality

Autori

• Elizabeth Minnich

Parametri

• 258 pagine
• 10 ore di lettura

• Libri di testo
• Libri di testo universitari
• Scienze sociali
• Tematica filosofica

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2016

(In brossura)