tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post4867880270481842170..comments2024-02-04T10:42:07.020-05:00Comments on Light reading: J. M. Coetzee on Norman Mailer's HitlerJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-54494429168719010012007-02-15T17:23:00.000-05:002007-02-15T17:23:00.000-05:00linkery:http://modalminority.typepad.com/modalmino...linkery:<BR/><BR/>http://modalminority.typepad.com/modalminority/2007/01/the_evil_made_h.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-56497116291605740132007-02-15T17:22:00.000-05:002007-02-15T17:22:00.000-05:00I think Coetzee's problem isn't so much with the "...I think Coetzee's problem isn't so much with the "banal" (of course it's banal) as with the "evil," which is sort of a catch-all term for avoiding (or simplifying) responsibility.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, I've gone on at length about it on my blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-24356735296794503152007-01-31T14:02:00.000-05:002007-01-31T14:02:00.000-05:00"To take the phrase "the banality of evil" to epit..."To take the phrase "the banality of evil" to epitomize Arendt's verdict on the misdeeds of Nazism, as Mailer seems to do, thus misses the complexity of the thinking behind it."<br /><br />Agreed (!), despite her suspicions about Augustine, here her notion is exceedingly close to Augustine's notion of evil as a privation of being.Dan Moreheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192472590372793072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-55446833069388527182007-01-31T14:01:00.000-05:002007-01-31T14:01:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dan Moreheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192472590372793072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-28412728845269756142007-01-27T03:58:00.000-05:002007-01-27T03:58:00.000-05:00Sorry for delete. One of my terribly embarrassing ...Sorry for delete. One of my terribly embarrassing typos. But thanks for the link. Arendt's banality of evil has interested me for a long while.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-38343853350879627632007-01-27T03:57:00.000-05:002007-01-27T03:57:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com