| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 308 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 63
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 63.
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| Note |
Selection of papers presented at the 8th gathering of "Global perspectives on evil and human wickedness", Salzburg, March 2007 and also some papers from a sister conference "Cultures of violence", Oxford, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production and promotion of evil. The authors encourage the reader to be challenged, outraged, and disturbed by what you read here. The eighth gathering of Global Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in Salzburg in March 2007, provided a look at evil past, present, and future, from a broad spectrum of disciplinary perspectives. Papers were presented on the Holocaust, genocide, violence. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART I Linguistic Frameworks for Evil; Little White Lies: 9/11 and the Recasting of Evil through Metaphor; The Phenomenology of Domestic Violence: An Insider's Look; Side Effects of the Linguistic Construction of Others' Wickedness; PART II Literary Frameworks for Evil; Falling Under an Evil Influence; The Banality of Violence: From Kafka's The Castle to Auster's The Music of Chance; Sacred and (Sub)Human Pain: Witnessing Bodies in Early Modern Hagiography and Contemporary Spectatorship of Atrocity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Good and evil -- Congresses.
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Good and evil. |
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Violence -- Congresses.
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Violence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Billias, Nancy.
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Global Conference on Cultures of Violence (4th : 2004 : Oxford, England)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Promoting and Producing Evil. Rodopi Bv Editions 2010 9789042029392 (OCoLC)607978331 |
| ISBN |
9789042029408 (electronic book) |
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9042029404 (electronic book) |
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9789042029392 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9042029390 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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