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... The introduction presents the book’s central concept, the “banality of good,” drawing on Hannah Arendt’s use of banality to refer to a rote thoughtlessness in political life and situating the concept in relation to other work on structural violence and bureaucratic governance. It then outlines...

...” that asserts the sort of shallow articulations of self and other that appealed to Duch and that are often at the heart of mass violence—even as this sort of dynamic is also part of our everyday lives (again, an illustration of the banality of everyday thought). The epilogue concludes by arguing that a key...