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This anthology poses challenges central to Elizabeth Minnich's book The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking to outstanding thought leaders from a wide range of fields. In a time when even small acts can have consequences that spread wider and much faster than ever, when public discourse is more banal and superficial even as it is inflated by bluster and fractured by group-think, knee-jerk partisanship, and hyper-specialization, it is a book whose outstanding authors reflect with urgency on how we can and why we must think what we are doing as professionals, citizens, public actors, and, crucially also, as educators.
The book brings together a group of distinguished thought leaders in widely varied fields: philosophy, evaluation, community organizing, sociology, systems thinking, business management, sociology, leadership, humanities, public policy, ethics, and religion. Each of these authors has struggled with how to practice as well as how to teach people not only to be "a success" as measured by title, office, and pay, but how and why it is crucial that each and all of us learn to think well about what we are doing, its effects, how and why we are doing it. They discuss issues such as lying; the ethics of 'fixing' genes that will then be passed on; knowing when, even whether, to intervene in genocide; unintended effects of economic development efforts; the effects of rewards only for short-term studies; making public policy with the public.
Philosophically framed and interdisciplinary in approach, the book is written to be accessible to a general educated audience. It is designed to be thought-provoking, illuminating, and useful.
Contents
Preface: Beyond Banalities: Thinking at Work in the World,
Elizabeth K. Minnich and Michael Quinn Patton
I. What is Thinking?
Chapter 1. Thinking about Thinking with Hannah Arendt in Mind
Elizabeth K. Minnich
2. Beyond Banality in Thinking About Thinking
Michael Quinn Patton
II. Teaching Thinking
Chapter 3. The Limits of Moral Heroism
Allen Dunne
Chapter 4. Thinking Responsibly: Barriers and Pathways
Troy Duster
Chapter 5. Perceiving the Possibility of Possibility: Making Thinking the Heart of Education
Eduardo Duarte
Chapter 6. Teaching Thinking
Elizabeth Minnich
Chapter 7. Thought in Progress: Field Notes from Norway
Jan Reinert Karlen
III. Ethical, Moral, and Political Thinking
Chapter 8. Shakespeare's Faust: A Parable of Our Time
Gayle Greene
Chapter 9. Why Not Lie? A Reflective Essay
Elizabeth Minnich
Chapter 10. Critical thinking and its limitations: Can we think our way out of white supremacy?
Stephen Brookfield
Chapter 1l. Thinking like an organizer: Habits of Resistance
Si Kahn
IV. Thinking at Work
Chapter 12. Beyond Banal Business Practices: Reflections on Thoughtless And Thoughtful Practices of International Businesses in Developing Countries
Frederick Bird
Chapter 13. Strategic Thinking in Support of Intensive and Extensive Good,
John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Danbi Seo
Chapter 14. Can Systems Thinking be an Antidote to Evil?
G.P. Richardson
Chapter 15 Entrepreneurial Thinking As Change Agent for Good
Mary Gowan
Chapter 16. ThoughtWork in Program Evaluation: Beyond Banality in Evaluation Practice
Michael Quinn Patton
V. Afterword
Chapter 17. Reflections on ThoughtWork
Elizabeth K. Minnich and Michael Quinn Patton
