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The Evil of Banality
- On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Engelsk Paperback
The Evil of Banality
- On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Engelsk Paperback

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In this expanded edition of The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation of “extensive evil,” her term for systematic, normalized harm-doing on the scale of genocide, slavery, sexualized dominance. The book now includes a new preface, new chapter, and expanded afterword addressing ongoing extensive evils, the paradox of lying, and the importance of developing the thinking without which conscience remains mute.

Extensive evils are actually carried out not by psychopaths, but by people like your quiet next-door neighbor, your ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters to do the long hard work of extensive evils, nor enough saints for extensive good. In periods of extensive evil, people little different from you and me do its work for no more than a better job, a raise, the house of the family “disappeared” last week.

So how can there be hope? Such evils are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing both the worst and best of which humans are capable, we can recognize and say no to extensive evil, practice and sustain extensive good, where they must take root – in ordinary lives.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
294
ISBN-13:
9798881802912
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
8881802910
Udg. Dato:
29 okt 2024
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Oplagsdato:
29 okt 2024
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