Evil and human agency : understanding collective evildoing / Arne Johan Vetlesen.
"Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative and original approach to evil, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to inflict pain intentionally on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what...
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| Hōputu: | Pukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Rangatū: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Whakarāpopototanga: | "Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative and original approach to evil, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to inflict pain intentionally on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied and projected by different agents."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | xii, 313 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780521856942 (hbk.) : 0521856949 (hbk.) : 9780521673570 (pbk.) : 0521673577 (pbk.) : |