The Evil of Banality

[Joseph Tracy]

Rosenbaums hyper inflated language and refutation via innuendo  
combine perfectly with the weak  logic of his  arguments to deter me  
from reading anything else he has to say.
On Nov 28, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Richard Romeo wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> 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/
>>>>
>>>