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Evil and human agency : understanding collective evildoing /
Professor Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances evil desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited into collective evildoing. A philosophical approach combined with a sociological and psychological one is brought to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the forme...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; A note on the cover image; Introduction; 1 The ordinariness of modern evildoers: a critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust; 2 Hannah Arendt on conscience and the 'banality' of evil; 3 The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others: An assessment of C. Fred Alford's work on evil; 4 The logic and practice of collective evil: 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia; 5 Responses to collective evil; 6 A political postscript: globalization and the discontents of the self; References; Index.