The Evil of Banality

[rich]

i'm sure many experts in philosophy read Slate to help them with their
scholarly investigations and conclusions

hey, I've [rosenbaum] read a book on the subject and now I'm bursting
with ill-deserved indignation

whatever you think about these two, you best read their work, and not
some pseudo-intellectual to make your judgements for you

and can u condemn a scholar's work solely because of his/her own
actions which can be seen as brutish, petty, etc.

I recently re-read The Banality of Evil and found it as powerful as
ever though Arendt, to give one example, was insanely viscious to Raul
Hilberg's work.

just saying...

rich

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Evil of BanalityTroubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.
> By Ron Rosenbaum
> Posted Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at 12:37 PM ET
>
>
> Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again?
> Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime
> Nazi-sycophant lover, the philosopher Martin Heidegger, were published
> within 10 days of each other last month. The pieces cast further doubt
> on the overinflated, underexamined reputations of both figures and
> shed new light on their intellectually toxic relationship.
>
> My hope is that these revelations will encourage a further
> discrediting of the most overused, misused, abused pseudo-intellectual
> phrase in our language: the banality of evil. The banality of the
> banality of evil, the fatuousness of it, has long been fathomless, but
> perhaps now it will be consigned to the realm of the deceitful and
> disingenuous as well.
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.slate.com/id/2234010/
>