The "Banality of Evil" and Contemporary Politics
By Thomas Winterbottom
- Release Date: 2026-02-06
- Genre: Philosophy
Description
This book examines the philospher Hannah Arendt's famous characterization of the actions of the Nazi regime as being emblematic of "the banality of evil," in which she meant that violence became part of the bureaucratic nature of life and people became desensitized to state violence. This book examines the idea that perhaps the contempoary world has lost the ideal of eliminating state violence.
