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1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 23
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 23.
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| Note |
Versions of these essays "were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004"--Preface. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface; PART I Groups, Activism, and the Tools of Ethnic Cleansing; No Place Like Home: The Role of Landmines in Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century; A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action; Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period; PART II Laws, Prisons, and Damaged People; Speaking the Language of Evil; The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are; Damage: A Logic of Evil; PART III Evil and the Arts. |
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Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 24The Devil's Footprints: The Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Der Verdacht; The Evil of Creation: The Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the Romantic Artist; PART IV Evil, Despair, and Distorted Realities; The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate; Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama; Evil and Despairing Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Account; PART V Individuals, Groups, and Evil Actions; Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders. |
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Harm and Transgression in International Criminal JusticeIndividual and Collective Responsibility for Wrongs of the Past; Notes on Contributors. |
| Summary |
Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity brings together fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004. The volume examines evil and wickedness from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, cultural studies, gender studies, law, literature, peace studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. In so doing Minding Evil keeps in play the doubled meaning of its title: on the one hand, to tend to evil, that is, to oversee, cultivate, and deploy it; on the other hand, to be bothered by evil and so, i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Good and evil.
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Good and evil. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Breen, Margaret Sönser.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Minding evil. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005 9042016787 (OCoLC)63173482 |
| ISBN |
1423787560 (electronic book) |
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9781423787563 (electronic book) |
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9042016787 |
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9789042016781 |
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9789401201506 |
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9401201501 |
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