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 House: How Privatization Threatens Democracy with Si Kahn, and has published op eds as well as papers in anthologies, magazines, journals, and textbooks.

11:45 am: Informal conversations with the author. Light lunch snacks available
12:15 pm: Book talk and reading
12:45 pm: Questions and discussion
1:15: Program ends