Elizabeth Minnich Knihy

The book integrates contemporary scholarship from diverse fields such as Gender, Multicultural, Postcolonial, Disability, Native American, and Queer Studies. It offers an updated perspective that reflects current discussions and research trends, enriching the understanding of these subjects. This comprehensive approach provides readers with a nuanced exploration of intersecting identities and cultural contexts, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars alike.

A book about how we define knowledge and how we think about moral and political questions. It argues that the systems of knowledge, morality, and politics are rooted in views that are exclusionary. It includes an analysis of the conceptual errors that legitimate domination and the construction of kinds ('genders') of human beings.

Asking, How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators and those who resist extensive evils--genocide, human trafficking, endemic sexualized violations of females, economic exploitation--the book delves into historic, contemporary, national, and international examples. The author, a moral philosopher, draws also on literature, psychology, economics, journalism, pop culture. Reversing Arendt's banality of evil, she finds that mind-deadening banality, thoughtless conventionality, ambition, greed, status-seeking enable the evil of banality.