1st Edition

The Path to Mass Evil Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today

By Michael Hardiman Copyright 2022
242 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

On the Southern border of the United States in 2018, the decision was made to implement a separation policy among refugees and migrant families arriving at the border – and so a group of government employees left their homes, bidding farewell to their families as they went to work, and began to separate hundreds of children from their families, forcefully taking them to holding centres.... Read more

Acknowledgements

1. Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Evil

2. The Banality of Evil

3. Banality and the Masses

4. Ideology, Totalitarianism and Mass Evil

5. Pernicious Ideologies

6. Totalising Ideology and Religion

7. The Fusion of Ideology with Banality

8. The Murderous Alphabet

9. Combatting Mass Evil: Arendt’s Legacy Today

Index

Biography

Michael Hardiman Ph.D. works as a psychologist and educator in the West of Ireland where he has over 30 years’ experience in private counselling, training and development, while also presenting seminars and workshops nationwide to family centres and to adult education services.