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The Evil of Banality

Elizabeth K. Minnich
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Author : Elizabeth K. Minnich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442275973

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How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation. “Extensive evil,” her term for systematic horrific harm-doing, is 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 for extensive evil, 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? The seeds of such evils are right there in our ordinary lives. They are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing and so protecting ourselves from responsibility for the worst and the best of which humans are capable, we can prepare to say no to extensive evil—to act accurately, together, and above all in time, before great harm-doing has become the daily work of ‘normal’ people.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt
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Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101007167

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The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.

The Banality of Evil

Bernard J. Bergen
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Author : Bernard J. Bergen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780585116969

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The Banality of Evil by Bernard J. Bergen Pdf

This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt were the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times. As Bergen describes Arendt's struggle to understand 'the banality of evil,' he shows how Arendt redefined the meaning of our most treasured political concepts and principles_freedom, society, identity, truth, equality, and reason_in light of the horrific events of the Holocaust. Arendt concluded that the banality of evil results from the failure of human beings to fully experience our common human characteristics_thought, will, and judgment_and that the exercise and expression of these attributes is the only chance we have to prevent a recurrence of the kind of terrible evil perpetrated by the Nazis.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt
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Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Topeka Bindery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 1417790032

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Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt Pdf

Hannah Arendts authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendts postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.

Eichmann Before Jerusalem

Bettina Stangneth
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Author : Bettina Stangneth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307959683

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Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth Pdf

A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself, from the defendant’s box in Jerusalem, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders—no more, he said, than “just a small cog in Adolf Hitler’s extermination machine.” How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding? Bettina Stangneth, the first to comprehensively analyze more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann’s own recently discovered written notes— as well as seventy-three extensive audio reel recordings of a crowded Nazi salon held weekly during the 1950s in a popular district of Buenos Aires—draws a chilling portrait, not of a reclusive, taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes with whom to discuss past glories while vigorously planning future goals with other like-minded fugitives. A work that continues to garner immense international attention and acclaim, Eichmann Before Jerusalem maps out the astonishing links between innumerable past Nazis—from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen—both in exile and in Germany, and reconstructs in detail the postwar life of one of the Holocaust’s principal organizers as no other book has done

Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil

Steven Saxonberg
Pre Modernity Totalitarianism and the Non Banality of Evil Book PDF

Author : Steven Saxonberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030281953

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Pre-Modernity, Totalitarianism and the Non-Banality of Evil by Steven Saxonberg Pdf

This book provides a comparative and historical analysis of totalitarianism and considers why Spain became totalitarian during its inquisition but not France; and why Germany became totalitarian during the previous century, but not Sweden. The author pushes the concept of totalitarianism back into the pre-modern period and challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the banality of evil. Instead, he presents an alternative framework that can explain why some states become totalitarian and why they induce people to commit evil acts.

The Life of the Mind

Hannah Arendt
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Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : HMH
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780547541471

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“A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.” —Newsweek Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt’s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. This final achievement, presented here in a complete one-volume edition, may be seen as a legacy to our own and future generations.

The Expanse and Philosophy

Jeffery L. Nicholas
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Author : Jeffery L. Nicholas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119755609

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The Expanse and Philosophy by Jeffery L. Nicholas Pdf

Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey The Expanse and Philosophy investigates the philosophical universe of the critically acclaimed television show and Hugo Award-winning series of novels. Original essays by a diverse international panel of experts illuminate how essential philosophical concepts relate to the meticulously crafted world of The Expanse, engaging with topics such as transhumanism, belief, culture, environmental ethics, identity, colonialism, diaspora, racism, reality, and rhetoric. Conceiving a near-future solar system colonized by humanity, The Expanse provokes a multitude of moral, ethical, and philosophical queries: Are Martians, Outer Planets inhabitants, and Earthers different races? Is Marco Inaros a terrorist? Can people who look and sound different, like Earthers and Belters, ever peacefully co-exist? Should science be subject to moral rules? Who is sovereign in space? What is the relationship between human progress and aggression? The Expanse and Philosophy helps you answer these questions—and many more. Covers the first six novels in The Expanse series and five seasons of the television adaptation Addresses the philosophical issues that emerge from socio-economics and geopolitics of Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance Offers fresh perspectives on the themes, characters, and storylines of The Expanse Explores the connections between The Expanse and thinkers such as Aristotle, Kant, Locke, Hannah Arendt, Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Nietzsche Part of the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, The Expanse and Philosophy is a must-have companion for avid readers of James S.A. Corey’s novels and devotees of the television series alike.

Letters, 1925-1975

Hannah Arendt,Martin Heidegger
Letters 1925 1975 Book PDF

Author : Hannah Arendt,Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 0151005257

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Letters, 1925-1975 by Hannah Arendt,Martin Heidegger Pdf

When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest young student. What happened between them then will never be known, but both would cherish their brief intimacy for the rest of their lives. The ravages of history would soon take them in quite different directions. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Heidegger became rector of the university in Freiburg, delivering a notorious pro-Nazi address that has been the subject of considerable controversy. Arendt, a Jew, fled Germany the same year, heading first to Paris and then to New York. In the decades to come, Heidegger would be recognized as perhaps the most significant philosopher of the twentieth century, while Arendtwould establish herself as a voice of conscience in a century of tyranny and war. Illuminating, revealing, and tender throughout, this correspondence offers a glimpse into the inner lives of two major philosophers.

Idealism and Freedom

Henry E. Allison
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Author : Henry E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052148295X

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Henry Allison is one of the foremost interpreters of the philosophy of Kant. This new volume collects all his recent essays on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Special features of the collection are: a detailed defense of the author's interpretation of transcendental idealism; a consideration of the Transcendental Deduction and some other recent interpretations thereof; further elaborations of the tensions between various aspects of Kant's conception of freedom and of the complex role of this conception within Kant's moral philosophy.

Thinking in Dark Times

Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan
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Author : Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823230754

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Thinking in Dark Times by Roger Berkowitz,Jeffrey Katz,Thomas Keenan Pdf

Hannah Arendt is one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century. This book focuses on how, against the professionalized discourses of theory, Arendt insists on the greater political importance of the ordinary activity of thinking.

Under the Bridge

Rebecca Godfrey
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Author : Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781439184110

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Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey Pdf

*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!* “A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.

Transforming Knowledge 2Nd Edition

Elizabeth Minnich
Transforming Knowledge 2Nd Edition Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Minnich
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439904763

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Transforming Knowledge 2Nd Edition by Elizabeth Minnich Pdf

A new edition of a widely influential book engages with contemporary critiques of inequality and with recent global events.

Evil and Human Agency

Arne Johan Vetlesen
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Author : Arne Johan Vetlesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139448846

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Evil and Human Agency by Arne Johan Vetlesen Pdf

Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation, and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied, and projected by different agents.

The Eichmann Trial

Deborah E. Lipstadt
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Author : Deborah E. Lipstadt
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805242911

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The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt Pdf

***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)*** Part of the Jewish Encounter series The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the survivors’ courtroom testimony—which was itself not without controversy—had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood what the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive had actually experienced. As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this trial of the century, which has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world, offers a legal, moral, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil. Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency.