The Evil of Banality

[Mark Kohut]

in this book, he says he cannot understand via any explanations the evil
that was (in) the man....

--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The Evil of Banality
> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 7:22 PM
> In Rosenbaum's defense, he didn't
> just a read a book (or the two
> prompting this article), he also wrote one:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Hitler-Search-Origins-Evil/dp/006095339X
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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/
> >>
> >
>