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.

Bill Gay, professor emeritus of philosophy, UNC Charlotte

A new forum for common thinking about thinking. A real masterpiece! For everyone who believes in the value of liberal arts education, this volume ought to become a manual to pore over night and day.

Jerzy Axer, director, Collegium Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw

Specialists from a dizzying array of disciplines provocatively engage with Minnich’s previous book, The Evil of Banality, and potently heed the call to attend to the practice of thinking across and within all fields.

Brian R. Clack, professor of philosophy & A. Vassiliadis Director of the Humanities Center, University of San Diego

If we want to think about thinking in all its richness, unfettered and unbanistered (and we must!), this is an excellent help, with friends of thinking working in a most capacious mode.

Stephen Bloch-Schulman, associate professor and chair of philosophy, Elon University