Evil and human agency

understanding collective evildoing
Forfatter:
Arne Johan Vetlesen
(Cambridge cultural social studies) In this provocative and original approach to understanding evil, Professor Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into what he calls collective evildoing. A philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman is brought to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. Here, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and...
Note: 
1. The ordinariness of modern evildoers: a critique of Zygmunt Bauman's The Modernity and the Holocaust; 2. Hannah Arendt on conscience and the banality of evil; 3. The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others; 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
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Bognummer: 
663907
Nota udgivelsesår: 
2024
Udgave: 
Cambridge University Press, 2005
ISBN: 
9780521673570

Emneord

Filosofisk psykologi
Holocaust
Ondskab
15