Perspectives on Evil

From Banality to Genocide

AvKanta Dihal

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del 103 i serien At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

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Beskrivning

The question of evil is one of the oldest and most intensely studied topics in intellectual history. In fiction, legend and mythology the boundary between good and evil is often depicted as clear-cut, at least to the reader or listener, who is supposed to understand such tales as lessons and warnings. Evil is something that must be avoided by the hero in some cases and vanquished in others; it is either the exact opposite of the expected good behaviour, or its complete absence. Even so, for the characters in these didactic fictions, it turns out to be deceptively easy to fall to the infernal, ‘dark’ side. This volume draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of contributors to chart events and deeds of an ‘evil’ nature that have been lived in the (recent) past and have become part of history, from individual to institutionalised evil.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-17
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:471 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Brill
Medarbetare:Dihal,Kanta
ISBN:9789004365827

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Kanta Dihal, D.Phil. (2018), Oxon., is Principal Investigator on the Global AI Narratives project at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of AI Narratives (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on ContributorsIntroductionKanta DihalPart 1The Banality and the Familiarity of Evil1 From Victims to Perpetrators: the Banality of Evil in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly OnesDamian Catani2 Unspeakable Banality: Discourse in DisputeCassie PedersenPart 2Genocide in Rwanda3 In Plain Sight: the Ethics of Proximity in the Holocaust and the Rwandan GenocideSarah Gendron4 On the Role of Nation-States in Regulating Evil: a Case Study on RwandaSally Nadeau5 Extraordinary ForgivenessJennifer VanderheydenPart 3Capitalism and the Socio-Psychology of Evil6 Late Capitalism, Psychopathy and the Ontology of EvilHelen Patey7 Psychologising Evil in the Media: a Market-Like Exchange of Political Responsibility for Isolation in the Greek Crisis EnvironmentSophia Kanaouti8 The Fury of ‘Ressentiment’: Binary Codes, Evil and SocietySpiros Gangas9 On the Usefulness of Being Unrealistic: a Critique of Freud’s Arguments against Neighbour LoveRegan Lance ReitsmaPart 4Dehumanization, the Law and the Prison10 Socio-Spatial Scripts: Evil and the Contestation of Space and BeingRallie Murray11 The Intersection between Evil and Architecture: Environment and AgencyRobert W. Butler12 Choosing between Two Evils: a Philosophical Consideration of the Defences of Necessity and Duress in English LawStephen BanksIndex