Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on evil : from banality to genocide / edited by Kanta Dihal.

Publication

Leiden : Brill Rodolpi, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Dihal, Kanta Sarasvati Monique, 1990-

Description

viii, 290 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--Back cover.

Series Statement

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; volume 103

Uniform Title

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 103.

Subjects

• History
• Fiction
• Rwanda
• Mythology
• Demonology in literature
• Demonology
• Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Ethical problems
• Good and evil
• Human behavior > Moral and ethical aspects
• Imprisonment > Moral and ethical aspects
• Genocide > Rwanda

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. The banality and the familiarity of evil. From victims to perpetrators: the banality of evil in Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones / Damian Catani -- Unspeakable banality: discourse in dispute / Cassie Pedersen -- Part 2. Genocide in Rwanda. In plain sight: the ethics of proximity in the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide / Sarah Gendron -- On the role of nation-states in regulating evil: a case study on Rwanda / Sally Nadeau -- Extraordinary forgiveness / Jennifer Vanderheyden -- Part 3. Capitalism and the socio-psychology of evil. Late capitalism, psychopathy and the ontology of evil / Helen Patey -- Psychologising evil in the media: a market-like exchange of political responsibility for isolation in the Greek crisis environment / Sophia Kanaouti -- The fury of 'ressentiment': binary codes, evil and society / Spiros Gangas -- On the usefulness of being unrealistic: a critique of Freud's arguments against neighbour love / Regan Lance Reitsma -- Part 4. Dehumanization, the law and the prison. Socio-spatial scripts: evil and the contestation of space and being / Rallie Murray -- The intersection between evil and architecture: environment and agency / Robert W. Butler -- Choosing between two evils: a philosophical consideration of the defences of necessity and duress in English law / Stephen Banks.

Call Number

JFE 21-1318

ISBN

• 9789004365827
• 9004365826
• 9789004409262 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019946256

OCLC

1137759989

Title

Perspectives on evil : from banality to genocide / edited by Kanta Dihal.

Publisher

Leiden : Brill Rodolpi, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; volume 103

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 103.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dihal, Kanta Sarasvati Monique, 1990- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Perspectives on evil. Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV 2019 (OCoLC)1130587617

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1318