The Evil of Banality

[Richard Romeo]

Read that one too
I liked it but it's hardly a scholarly work
A series of interviews really
I'm not sure u can dismiss heideggers work because he was an asshole

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On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>>>
>>