On Wednesday, September 6 at 7 p.m. join author Elizabeth Minnich as she introduces and invites discussion of her new book, The Evil of Banality: The Life and Death Importance of Thinking (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). A moral philosopher, Elizabeth began her quest to comprehend how ordinarily decent people make "extensive evils" (genocide, slavery) and "extensive good" possible when, as Hannah Arendt's teaching assistant, she went with Arendt to defend
Arendt's controversial concept, the banality of evil. Elizabeth Minnich is the award-winning author of Transforming Knowledge. She co-authored The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy with Si Kahn.

Jan 2, 2025, 10 to 10:45 AM

Jan 6, 2025

Jan 6, 2025, 8 to 9:30 AM