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Evil and human agency : understanding collective evildoing / Arne Johan Vetlesen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge cultural social studiesPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: xii, 313 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521856942
  • 0521856949 (hbk.)
  • 9780521673570 (pbk)
  • 0521673577 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .V48 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The ordinariness of modern evildoers : a critique of Zygmut 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index.

1. The ordinariness of modern evildoers : a critique of Zygmut 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.

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