Banality

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• Banal evil vs. radical evil; or, Arendt reappraised

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  I recently read an essay — in the New Yorker, I think, although I can’t remember for sure — that argues that on the basis of what we now know about Martin Heidegger, his anti-Semitism is so virulent that it renders him an inappropriate subject for serious study. Never having read any Heidegger, I’m agnostic ...
  1 week ago

• THE LIMITS TO THE USE OF HARD POWER - OR ANOTHER ACADEMIC WRITES WITHOUT THINKING USING LANGUAGE FROM THE BANALITY OF EVIL

  
  CHUCKMAN'S OTHER CHOICE OF WORDS — Authority: 122
  POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY GORDON GIBSON IN TORONTOS GLOBE AND MAIL Sorry, Gordon Gibson, as soon as a writer uses a term like "hard power," I stop reading, knowing full well he has nothing to say. The phrase is the creation of Pentagon consultants on expense-account lunches. Bullying and ruthless violence - a ...
  1 week ago

• Saved by a Model

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The last time I fought depression it lasted for over three years. I had lost my ability to respond to anything good, in fact good things just hurt me more because they reminded me of what I once was able to enjoy. I had no incentive to even get out of a chair on my [...]
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Crazy Claims About Death Panels’ Sadly Not Crazy At All

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 476
  Are you familiar with the phrase, “the banality of evil”?  The opening paragraph in the Wikipedia article on the subject summarizes the concept quite well: The banality of evil is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt and incorporated in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality ...
  4 weeks ago

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