Introduction: towards a theory of human secrecy and unfathomability, or exposing elusive forms of evil -- From the devil to frighteningly normal and sane people -- The crisis of politics and the search for a language of sensitivity -- Between fear and indifference: the loss of sensitivity -- Consuming university: the new sense of meaninglessness and the loss of criteria -- Rethinking the Decline of the West
Summary
Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one & rsquo;s ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies ..
