ELIZABETH K. MINNICH is Distinguished Fellow with the Association of American Colleges & Universities and a professor of moral philosophy at Queens University. Among her publications are The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking and Transforming Knowledge, 2nd Edition.MICHAEL QUINN PATTON is former president of the American Evaluation Association and author of eight major evaluation research books. His most recent books are Principles-Focused Evaluation (2018), Facilitating Evaluation (2018) and Blue MarbleEvaluation for Global Systems Change (2019).

• Preface: Beyond Banalities: Thinking at Work in the World Elizabeth Minnich and Michael PattonAcknowledgments I: WHAT IS THINKING? Chapter 1 Thinking about Thinking: With Hannah Arendt in Mind Elizabeth K. MinnichChapter 2 Beyond Banality in Thinking about ThinkingMichael Quinn PattonII: TEACHING THINKING Chapter 3 The Limits of Moral Heroism Allen DunneChapter 4 Thinking Responsibly: Barriers and Pathways Troy DusterChapter 5 Perceiving the Possibility of Possibility: Making Thinking the Heart of EducationEduardo DuarteChapter 6 Teaching Thinking Elizabeth K. MinnichChapter 7 Thoughts in Progress: Field Notes from Norway Jan Reinert KarlsenIII: ETHICAL, MORAL, AND POLITICAL THINKING Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Faust: A Parable of Our TimeGayle GreeneChapter 9 Why Not Lie?: A Reflective EssayElizabeth K. MinnichChapter 10 Critical Thinking and Its Limitations: Can We Think Our Way Out of White Supremacy? Stephen BrookfieldChapter 11 Thinking like an Organizer Si KahnIV: THINKING AT WORK Chapter 12 Beyond Banal Business Practices: Reflections on Thoughtless and Thoughtful Practices of International Businesses In Developing CountriesFrederick BirdChapter 13 Strategic Thinking in Support of Intensive and Extensive Good John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Danbi SeoChapter 14 Can Systems Thinking be an Antidote to Evil? G. P. RichardsonChapter 15 Entrepreneurial Thinking as Change Agent for GoodMary GowanChapter 16 ThoughtWork in Program Evaluation: Beyond Banality in Evaluation PracticeMichael Quinn PattonChapter 17 Afterword: Reflections on Thought WorkElizabeth K. Minnich and Michael Quinn Patton

This book resolutely confronts the dangers of banality in classrooms, boardrooms, and in public. It provides timely and vital strategies for exposing and resisting seemingly innocuous silence and inaction which allows incipient violence to escalate even to the level of genocide.